The doctrine of permissions [see 398] also involves this, that evil spirits claim dominion over those who are evil, consequently over the evils in a person. They claim this as theirs by right, one even declaring that [evils] are theirs, because injected by them, so that they belong to them. For this reason, they claim dominion over every person who speaks falsely. And over one who is driven by passions, and thus evils, they also strive for dominion; but because every human is evil to the core, they are not given permission to rule except over those evils in a person that are added by actual life. But the permission does not extend beyond the purpose that the person may, through punishments and purges, be cured of these evils. This is one of the rules governing permissions. 1748, 18 February.