Which, of course, is precisely what diabolic activity is about, even in its ordinary manifestations. It sows discord. It preys upon our vulnerabilities, weakens our fortitude, rids us of joy, so that any spiritual momentum we might have had is slowed, and any orientation we might have had, toward God, becomes easy to shift. And then, once it is done with us, done using us like the tools that we become for it, when we give in to it, it goes somewhere else, concentrates its power on someone else for a while. But it is always near at hand, to come back to us. Wishing to bring us nearer to its realm.