Evil spirits continually want to convince the good of their falsities, but still do not realize that this is to attack a nature and to change it, which is not possible. Once one has been imbued with a conviction that is true and good, and has been strengthened in it by the Lord so as to be held in the conviction, one can never be torn away from it. This evil spirits do not realize, imagining that a person can be corrupted by the slightest reasoning-as they tried to do with good Jews, but in vain. 1748, 22 Aug.