2178. While I was in prayer, a thought slipped in with the sense of the prayer, namely, that a gang of many spirits was streaming into the mental image or images of the thought and the prayer, so that the images are even disordered, because so many disordered elements were coming in from the world of spirits-even though to us, who are not in order, they may appear as orderly. Take for example the eye, its very least glance can see the most disordered mess as orderly, because it is not aware of all the objects within that very least glance of the sight. Likewise in the case of sounds, such as those of several musical instruments. There seems to be a harmony, when yet there are countless dissonances in each tone.