4727. CONCERNING THOSE WHO HAVE ACQUIRED REPUTATION BY MEANS OF EXTERNAL UPRIGHTNESS. There was a spirit, who was able to call forth the upright, and also angels, but, as he said, from no evil end. His ends were not disclosed. He put himself into a state of uprightness, and thus communicated with good spirits, and, as the angels communicate through these, so the angels could be called forth. He was exposed and driven out. It was stated that such persons cannot be present in the societies of the good, because they still commit evils; and that external uprightness must be taken away from him, and his evils filled up; since, otherwise, he would afford a handle to the evil for doing injury to the good.