2499. It should also be noted that when such spirits and others have been in societies of spirits, and exposed and then cast out, that there is always some mark sticking to them, as we read about Cain [Gen. 4:15], which appears to the spirits they come to and want to lead astray in the same way. This mark increases in size finally to the point that they are not tolerated in any society, but finally left to themselves. Their loneliness then at last becomes apparent to them, and is just as it is portrayed [2498]. 1748, 3 July.