6471. There was a certain spirit, not an evil spirit but one of those who imagined that they had greater knowledge than others about matters of faith, and who instructed many others, even in the knowledge that everything good and true comes from the Lord and that man cannot by himself think or will anything good. This spirit was brought into the state in which he had no thought or will that began in himself; for in the next life people can be brought into states such as this. While in that state he said that he was unable to live in that condition and that for him life was oppressive. He was told at this point that this showed that he did not like living in obedience to the truth he had taught, that this state was the one angels lived in, and that they were filled with happiness when they lived that their life did not begin in themselves. But what he was told made no difference to him. This proved how difficult it is to lead the life of faith unless the good of charity plays its part in that life.