205. [207.] 67. Angels of heaven have disclosed that people caught up in faith alone have no conscience, indeed that they do not know what conscience is, and anyone who does not have any conscience does not have any religion either. The reason is that they make goods of life of no account, and those who make these of no account are incapable of any measure of conscience or of knowing therefore what it is; for conscience is a grief of the heart at having acted contrary to Divine precepts and at having entertained thoughts in opposition to them. The grief of conscience springs from people's seeing themselves as being in a state of damnation.