658. CONCERNING THE CUPIDITY OF STEALING Those who in the life of the body have hankered after the goods of others, and [have obtained them] by various artifices which they have explained before men as allowable, whether by trading or by other means, in the other life go about and continually seek to take away the goods of others. When they come alongside similar or different spirits, their genius is at once recognized and they are cast out with penalties and blows. So they wander about, seeking, and everywhere they are punished with whips, or in other ways. Such spirits sometimes came to me and complained, and I recognized that they had been traders, even famous ones, at which I wondered.