I was enabled to observe especially in the world of spirits, and also to experience, that as soon as their reins are slackened, they rush of themselves to the ruin and destruction of those around them. They are constantly being restrained, in such a way that they do not feel it, by a spiritual restraining bond, so that they cannot think, much less will and do, evil as befits their liking and nature. They are unaware of this bond, because being restrained in this manner, they therefore suppose that they are good. But by experience on several occasions I was shown how this bond is let loose, and at once they rush into evil, and indeed to the destruction of those standing around. In fact, so that I might learn this, I was given, so to speak, the power of slackening it, and they began rushing to evil at once, even so intensely that they complained at being let loose.