2743. Because they had loved nothing better than this in their bodily life, they easily appropriate arts unknown in bodily life or to those in the body, so they are like sponges put into water. They at once suck out of a person with whom they are present and spirits with whom they are, anything they can use to obtain these goals, at the same time also turning goods into evils. They are like poisonous animals, like scorpions, which, when ground up and mixed with oil, at once absorb all the poison from a wound, and so on.