1000. Such, then, are those who during their life have wanted in various ways to explore the cupidities and thoughts of others, and then, like Vertumnus, turn themselves into various forms. There is nothing that they do not affirm, but with the intention of learning the thoughts of others. This is the case with many who burn with such cupidity - not with the end or intention of making gain thereby, but merely that they may know. Thus they are in accord with those things which belong to the nature of that serosity. Moreover, their desire to know inwardly, or to know the more interior things of man, is evident from the fact that they want to introduce themselves more interiorly, thus even to the sanguineous essences; but this they cannot do.