3039. It is the nature of evil spirits to want the good not to resist, but to yield, so that they can bring every evil upon them, but I replied to them that they cannot help resisting, and if they did not resist, they would be abusing their goodness, and would intend to destroy all in heaven and on the earth, so there is resistance. And in fact the world of spirits is therefore such that evil is inflicted on them by the evil, although the good seem to participate with them, when yet it is not so. 1748, 2 Sept.