4719. What [is meant by] dragging the net and pulling out fish

A certain one appeared who seemed outwardly sincere, but was inwardly a devil. His speech also sounded sincere, for which reason there were associated with him upright spirits, simple ones, who do not grasp inward matters - as happens in the other life. When he was reflecting on the fact that he was attracting simple, upright spirits, who were of an earthly quality, he seemed to himself to be holding a net, and to sink it down and pull it in, thus to allure the upright.