7071. In order that I might know for certain that their disposition was such, I was allowed to represent meadows, newly ploughed fields, gardens, woodlands, and streams to them; but they immediately began to transform them. The meadows and newly ploughed fields they darkened, using representations to fill them with snakes; and they blackened the streams so that the water was not clear in appearance. When I asked them why they were acting in that way they said that they did not wish to think about those kinds of things, only about realities, which consist in the knowledge of things devoid of their earthly associations, especially the knowledge of such as are found in heaven.