It has been explained previously [867-71] that when [newly arrived] souls come among spirits, or among those souls who wander freely in the lowest heaven, as if in a second world, the latter examine them to the best of their ability. There are some who examine only the cruder states of mind in a soul, and can be quite mistaken. They get him to say only what they have planned and have put to him, and if he responds agreeably to the discourse of those who are leading the soul to speak as he does, then they at once make up their minds that the soul is of a certain character, when yet he is not. For they induce upon him a state like their own, and in that state, he speaks affably with them, as one of them, so they think he is like that. Sometimes, inducing evil things, they condemn him out of prejudices or opinions they have adopted - as they did in the case of certain persons known to me in life, about whom I was not always able to think in fairness, because I did not know them so well; and so they judge them on that basis.