The justice of these comparisons becomes manifest when we turn to the records that have been left by holy persons.  A most instructive record from this point of view is the autobiography of Soeur Jeanne des Anges, superior of the Ursulines of Loudun in the seventeenth century.[404] She was clever, beautiful, ambitious, fond of pleasure, still more of power.  With this, as sometimes happens, she was highly hysterical, and in the early years of her religious life was possessed by various demons of unchastity and blasphemy with whom for many years she was in constant struggle.  She fell in love with a priest of Loudun, Grandier, a man whom she had never even seen, only knowing of him as a powerful and fascinating personality at whose feet all women fell, and she imagined that she and the other nuns of her convent were possessed through his influence.  She was thus the cause of the trial and execution of Grandier, a famous case in the annals of witchcraft.  In her autobiography Soeur Jeanne describes in detail how the demons assailed her at night, appearing in lascivious attitudes, making indecent proposals, raising the bed-clothes, touching all parts of her body, imploring her to yield to them, and she tells how strong her temptation was to yield.  On one night, for instance, she writes:  “I seemed to feel someone’s breath, and I heard a voice saying:  ’The time for resistance has gone by, you must no longer rebel; by putting off your consent to what has been proposed you will be injured; you cannot persist in this resistance; God has subjected you to the demands of a nature which you must satisfy on occasions so urgent.’  Then I felt impure impressions in my imagination and disordered movements in my body.  I persisted in saying at the bottom of my heart that I would do nothing.  I turned to God and asked Him for strength in this extraordinary struggle.  Then there was a loud noise in my room, and I felt as if someone had approached me and put his hand into my bed and touched me; and having perceived this I rose, in a state of restlessness, which lasted for a long time afterward.  Some days later, at midnight, I began to tremble all over my body as I lay in bed, and to experience much mental anxiety without knowing the cause.  After this had lasted for some time I heard noises in various parts of my room; the sheet was twice pulled without entirely uncovering me; the oratory close to my bed was upset.  I heard a voice on the left side, toward which I was lying.  I was asked if I had thought over the advantageous offer that had been made to me.  It was added:  ’I have come to know your reply; I will keep my promise if you will give your consent; if, on the contrary, you refuse, you will be the most miserable girl in the world, and all sorts of mischances will happen to you.’  I replied:  ’If there were no God I would fear those threats; I am consecrated to Him.’  It was replied to me:  ’You will not get much help from God; He will abandon you.’