[2] If then they do not receive this truth, that God is one in person and in essence, and that He is the Lord the Redeemer and Saviour, and in Him is the Divine Trinity - as well as this, that it is of no avail to know and talk about faith and charity, unless they are expressed in the life we lead, being given to us by the Lord when after self-examination we repent - if they turn their backs on these truths when they are taught them, and continue to think of God as being three persons and of religion as being merely something that exists, they are reduced to poverty and their trade is taken away from them, until they realise they are reduced to extreme straits. Then they are taken to people who, being in possession of Divine truths, have affluent means and a flourishing trade, and there the idea is introduced into their minds from heaven of finding out what is the source of these people's prosperity. At the same time they are brought to reflect upon these people's faith and their way of life, noting that they loathe evils as sins. Even so they do not sufficiently enquire and perceive how this agrees with their own thoughts and reflections. These states alternate. Finally they think of their own accord that the way out of their poverty is to adopt similar beliefs, and a similar way of life. Then depending on the extent to which they receive faith and lead a life of charity, they are given wealth and a pleasant life.

[3] In this manner those who have in the world lived a life containing some charity are corrected by themselves and prepared for heaven. Afterwards they become so much more resolute than others that they can be called models of constancy, nor do they allow themselves to be led astray by any reasoning, fallacy, blurring produced by sophistic arguments, or by mere proofs which result from looking at things the wrong way round. For they become more clear-sighted than before.