2395. What their power of understanding and becoming wise is like can also be inferred from other considerations, for example, that if they only so much as look at or focus their sight upon an evil spirit, then he feels a torment as if he were in the deepest hell. For the force of wisdom is so penetrating that there is nothing in the spirit that does not seem to dissolve. Once an evil spirit who was looked into only slightly by angels began to lament and supplicate as if he were in the throes of death. One spirit appeared to me to be turned into a ball of snakes, because of a single look and the penetrating force of it.