49. That those who are in evils have no faith, however they may imagine that they have, has been shown by instances of such in the spiritual world. They were conducted to a heavenly society from which the spiritual principle of the faith of the angels entered into the interiors of the faith of those who had been conducted thither; and by this the angels perceived that they had only a natural or external principle of faith and not its spiritual or internal principle. Therefore they themselves confessed that they had no faith at all; and that they had persuaded themselves when in the world, that to think that a thing is so, for any reason, was to believe, or to have faith. But the faith of those who were not principled in evil was perceived to be something quite different.