1490. Such are not content simply to destroy the body, unless this be by torture with which they are delighted. But since they inwardly think that this is not sufficient they go further, and basely desire by various deceits to pervert his moral and also his spiritual life. Thus they immediately and promptly pervert whatever good they observe in his civil, moral, and even spiritual life, that his happiness may be endangered. In this way do they endeavor to destroy the eternal happiness of their enemy, by which, as they say, they are delighted in the highest degree. The more interiorly they can penetrate and so pervert, the more do they desire to do so. They do this by various deceits, for they are also keen-sighted, because they think many things and turn over hatreds in their mind. It was said that there are thousands of such.