2079 1/2. That very subtle spirit was of the kind in bodily life who are pretenders, and think badly of everyone else they see. They think only ill of them, and never well, which comes from some inborn malice, especially from envy. Their way of slipping into the enjoyments or delights of others comes from their having done the same in bodily life, agreeing with and indulging everyone by a look, a gesture, and words, while inwardly harboring thoughts especially springing from envy. Thus that spirit had slipped into all their enjoyments. But because they had a nature formed by envy that they inwardly harbored, and that cannot be hidden in the other life, but becomes active and erupts, they try to destroy all the least enjoyments of the other person, turning them from pleasures into unpleasantness, thus depriving the people they are with of their joy. For the outer facial expression after death vanishes, and the thought is there, and is seen, differently than in the life of the body.