What the life of evil spirits after death is like can be clear from the fact that they sometimes thought themselves able to carry off whatever they saw. Now there was also a Jew from among the robbers to whom I was showing several gold coins, who was thinking he would like to carry them off, not knowing but that he was a person on earth and could therefore do so. So the coins were left for him to take away, and it also seemed to him that he had carried them off in fantasy. When I showed him that they remained and that it was a fantasy of his, he declared, dumbfounded, that he now realized that he was a spirit. But I know that he still soon knew no differently than before. From this one may conclude what the life of evil spirits after death is like. To good spirits, however, when the fact is made plain to them that they are spirits, reflection is granted them by the Lord so that they may know from then on.