3089. He considered himself so subtle as to be outside of the realm of all, thinking that no one could harm, much less punish him, so he was raised overhead in the line of the zenith, where spirits came who were worse than himself and equally subtle. They entered into his thoughts and thereby tormented him to the point where he said he was driven into such confusion and then a kind of torment that it could hardly be described. For at the same time he was inflamed with the desire to extricate himself, which increased that kind of torment. In this way he was taught that there are evil spirits that are punishers who are equally subtle, so that he should not think himself safe on account of his subtlety.