Spirits were also shown to me who had grown accustomed to deceiving people by painful trickery, putting on a sweet face and sweet talk, and harboring within venomous deceptions, hoping in this way to entrap people, destroy them and slit their throats-and placing in these tricks the enjoyment of their life. It was permitted them to come into sight and to devise their deceitful arts, which they did so slyly that the spirits of the inward world could not find them out. When they were just coming to the act, the inner world was suddenly closed, which I could feel deeply by the sudden silence-