I passed through a hell where there were deceitful adulterers, interiorly in a state of vastation; and it was then permitted them to influence the affections of my will, and with such subtlety, artifice, and ingenuity to upset, pervert, and blot out my thoughts in favour of chastity, and to induce the pleasure of and desire for adultery; they paid attention to every impulse of thought from affection, persuading tacitly. This was done with me so that I might know that man of himself can by no means resist the pleasure of adultery, except from the Lord. For they act upon the hereditary life within the thought, in such a way that man can by no means notice it. I was then granted by the Lord an interior perception of their efforts.