There are some in the world who carry on their lives indulging in intrigues and lies, that is, who, in order to obtain their aims, make use of lies that result in evils. Consequently, they seek their goals by evil means, such as some that have been shown to me by an actual experience: they use innocent people to do them the service of convincing [others] regarding the goals they are trying to reach. Also, lying to persons who know nothing about a matter, they induce them to affirm it, and when the lies are spread around, enmities and aversions result. For they behave deviously, holding back and taking care in various ways to keep those persons from finding out [the truth]. All this I was shown by an actual experience, where they used someone as their agent who was not at all their kind, just so as to convince by means of a blameless person. Then by persuasion and imitation, they brought to bear tactics familiar in the world of spirits, but which this is not yet quite the place to describe, so that I would be convinced, and so that there would be no suspicion that this came from them. In short they use evil means to arrive at any goal whatever-deceptions, lies and schemes causing all manner of evils to break forth. They plot these evils out of the arrogance of self-love, and people of this character practice them in their every least endeavor.