1241. These spirits even bring on an anxious sensation in the abdominal area of the body, in the region of the diaphragm, causing a sense of anxiety when they are at work. The same ones also bring on similar anxieties during a person's temptations, and, when they are permitted, unbearable ones. Such anxieties I have suffered during temptation for several days, and at this moment I am also feeling them, but slightly. This anxious feeling comes from them because they have that nature. They lack the ability to stretch their thinking, and to yield to what is necessary and more useful.