2123. I was then instructed, as this kept on, what the purpose of that large troop was, namely, that it dispersed societies that had ganged up wrongly by themselves, of spirits who had then plotted evils against others, as was made plain to me previously [2121]. That troop of spirits then thinks of nothing else than breaking up one from the other in the group, striking them with the fear that they would perish all together. Thus one is split away from the other, and they think of nothing but escape, and some, of their own destruction.