'When the intellect through rejection of the passions
attains to unwavering hope, then the enemy makes it visualize its past
sins on the pretext of confessing them to God. Thus he tries to rekindle
passions which by God's grace have been forgotten, and so secretly to
inflict injury. Then, even though someone is illumined and hates the
passions, he will inevitably be filled with darkness and confusion at
the memory of what he has done. But if he is still befogged and
self-indulgent, he will certainly dally with the enemy's provocations
and entertain them under the influence of passion, so that this
re-collection will prove to be a prepossession and not a confession.'
