3313. It was disclosed to me that the most subtle ones, whom I had not felt before, were children of the most ancient Church, namely, from before the flood, let back into their state, such as they had been. Their malice is indescribable, being too subtle to come to my perception, only the fact that it existed. But what it was, or its quality, I was given to realize only from this, that they were evil. In short, they were inwardly evil, so that if they had been any more deeply so, they would not have been salvable to eternity; for they wanted also to corrupt pure spiritual things.* * [, which are the means of salvation]