7644. 'And they will cover the surface of the land' means the lowest levels of the natural mind. This is clear from the meaning of 'the surface' as the external and so lowest levels; and from the meaning of 'the land', here 'the land of Egypt', as the natural mind, dealt with in 5276, 5278, 5280, 5188, 5301.

6318. There are also people who think on a level lower than that of the senses, namely the level of the body; they are those who have set themselves most firmly against belief in the Divine and have ascribed everything to natural forces, and so have led lives that took no account, except to outward appearances, of what was right and fair. Since they are inwardly like animals, though outwardly they look like human beings, they think on a level lower than that of the senses, and look to themselves and to others in the next life like people with physical bodies. I have seen them in a frontal position, close to my right foot, rising up from a deep place; they looked extremely hairy, and tough and coarse so to speak. Once they had risen up there appeared what looked like a sword hanging over their head. I spoke to them and they said it appeared to them exactly as if they were in the body.