1181. Those angels who reject, yea, who are averse to more interior things were those who acted inwardly upon me, namely, upon the upper region of the palate, and who induced and compelled me to think and speak according to their thoughts, and also induced an almost similar state upon me that they might be confirmed. I also spoke from them. There was objection to very many things concerning the matters that were to be written which were full of difficulties, to the effect that no men would perceive them, nor would they be of use to men in their single things without an immediate revelation of the Lord. It was also objected that the human race would thus be rendered worse, for they would pervert interior things, and the more interior a thing is that is perverted, the worse it is for those who pervert it; besides similar things.