Spiritual Experiences (Buss) n. 1137

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1137. As regards those who are internal, these are not evil. They are indeed eager to know what a man has thought, and this from a certain cupidity, but not so much his falses or evils, as his goods, in order that they may draw the man to themselves and he may be with them in their society; for they constitute that province which draws forth the spirit which they wed to the chyle. Thus they are those who put a good interpretation upon all things. Even though they be not good, the effect they have is that there is friendship.


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