1669. Those spirits said that they had never been clothed with a body, nor do they appear to each other in a bodily form, but in the form of a cloud, barely having a human shape. Some spirits have been portrayed to me in this way on several occasions, that is, as bright clouds in a roughly human shape, hardly recognizable as such. And when I asked them the cause of this, they said that they do not know, for they did not like it that they had ever had a body. From the fact that they spoke well of the spirits of the planet Jupiter, I was convinced that they had been from that earth, because they also completely scorn their own bodies [see 547], and like to live as spirits on earth, not as people clothed with a body. So they called those bodies worms, or worm food. And because they think in this way, and that thought slips into the spirits' mental imagery, therefore snake-like images are formed.