The final end of such beings is not known...nevertheless, as they oppose law, they will at last shrivel up and become as if they were not.
Even those of high degree may fall.
It is only when man so wills that he hears fully the voice of God; and it is only when a man so wills that he hears the message of the devil. The doctrine that a request must initiate the gift is as true in the relationship that my be established between man and the devil as between man and God.
He is not a force that can work harm, unless man places himself under the subjection of evil; but, if the devil be allowed a hearing, he may become the master of the man, and lead him downward on the road of retrogression.