From this I was able to learn how evil spirits, each according to their own state of mind and their own nature, extracted from the mental images of my memory everything whatever in the scope of that composite mental image that was agreeable to them. Some took remote elements, in fact, very remote, which were far to the side of the image, brought there from some object of thought, of hearing, or of sight. For the mental images of the memory are such that very many elements can be associated to them one after another, and indeed, even alien elements, and the mental images are like a field of many subjects put together and thus associated from objects of the senses and of the thinking. They are like groups of very many, and depending on how the simpler images are joined together and associated, and what they are like, such is the person in respect to that mental image. And when the person after the death of the