2889. When such spirits were infesting me for a long time, holding me in my more pleasant [states] from premeditated deceit, and it was granted me to realize this, then in whatever way I seemed to be able, I resisted, repelling them, twisting the evil back toward them, though not on my own power, but I seemed to do so on my own. Certain spirits speaking with me were saying that it is not lawful to act in this way, resisting evil with evil, considering that they should be entirely passive and await direct help from the Lord, falling into this opinion only because of the general law that they should not resist evil [Matt. 5:39], but should suffer all evils to be brought upon them and then await direct liberation by the Lord. But I was prompted to tell them that it should not be interpreted in this way, so as to mean that if someone in a person's life, if a thief or robber, or if a criminal, wanted to take someone's life, steal craftily or with overt violence what is most dear to the person and utterly necessary, burn it up, and the person is alone, he should then passively let this happen and await direct help from the Lord, and on not receiving it,