1739. It is not easy to relate to these spirits, that is, they cannot be in the angels' company, for they favor their own opinions and their own desires, putting themselves before others, and do not want to admit the inward qualities that break them down. For example, when they are told that there is a sense and an awareness on the part of inward and very inward spirits, to the effect that a spirit does not live by his own power, but is an instrument of life, then they turn away from this, for they want to live by their own power-as in fact all do who make up the tunics [of the skin]. Still, some are able to understand this, but do not like to.