932. CONTINUATION CONCERNING THE EXPLORATION OF SPIRITS Souls can be explored by spirits with the greater difficulty in the degree that they can be reduced into a state of good affections. This is also usually the case with evil men in the world. When they are in misfortunes, sadness, temptation, disease, they then appear to be wholly changed, but if the former disposition remains they easily relapse. Similar states, therefore, can also be formed in souls, and when in these states they appear to be different. I was instructed today by living experience in the case of one who in the life of the body had been cunning. If, however, from their cunning they admit a state of goodness, the simulation at once shines forth before angels as in clear day, but not so before the grosser spirits who can be deluded by means of specious simulations. Simulation occurs among souls, for they derive this from the life of the body. They suppose no otherwise than that they in like manner can delude spirits, but their simulations are manifestly patent; and if these simulations are innate they are punished in the manner spoken of before [n. 515], namely, as by a sundering of interiors and exteriors by means of genera and species of rending.