HH 577 - angels have wisdom - evil spirits have malice & cunning

HH 577
In the same degree in which angels have wisdom and intelligence
infernal spirits have malice and cunning;
for the case is the same, since the spirit of a person
when released from the body is in his good or in his evil -
if an angelic spirit in his good,
and if an infernal spirit in his evil.
Every spirit is his own good or his own evil
because he is his own love . . ..

. . . the Lord cannot protect a person
unless he acknowledges the Divine and lives a life of faith and charity;
for otherwise a person turns himself away from the Lord
and turns himself to infernal spirits,
and thus his spirit becomes imbued with a malice like theirs.

Nevertheless,
a person is continually withdrawn by the Lord from the evils . . ..