3425. About mice
They are mice who, like mice, gnaw away at what are truths, just as mice gnaw at grains. They are in the highest degree mountain mice who are more educated and deceitfully [gnaw away] at what are inward things.
Spirits who are mice in the highest degree are such that they constantly trample and deceitfully distort all things that are in the process of springing forth, both truths and goods. On the way.
3425. CONCERNING MICE.
(They are mice, who, like mice, tread upon [terunt] those things which pertain to truths; just as mice do to corn. Those are in the highest degree, mountain mice, who are better informed, and deceitfully tread upon those things which are more interior.
Such is the character of those spirits who are in the highest degree mice, so that they constantly trample on, and deceitfully pervert all that is growing up, be it the true or the good. In the way.)
3425. De muribus
Mures sunt ii, qui sicut mures, ea quae sunt veritates, terunt, sicut mures frumenta. Mures montani sunt in summo gradu, qui sunt instructiores, et ex dolo ea quae sunt interiora adhuc [terunt].
Tales sunt spiritus, qui in summo gradu sunt mures, ut continue insistant, et cum dolo pervertant omnia quae nascentia sunt, tam vera quam bona. In via.