Acknowledgement
I would like to thank J. Brent Crosson for organising this remarkable special issue as well as the AAA panel that launched the project some years ago, and for inviting me to write this Afterword.
Disclosure Statement
No potential conflict of interest was reported by the author.
Notes
1. Also the colour black: ‘they say their God is as black as they are, and is not good … We answered that our God is as white as we are, is good, and gives us many blessings’ (72).
2. Fifth Rule, ‘Greater Discernment of Spirits’: We ought to note well the course of the thoughts, and if the beginning, middle and end is all good, inclined to all good, it is a sign of the good Angel; but if in the course of the thoughts which he brings it ends in something bad, of a distracting tendency, or less good than what the soul had previously proposed to do, or if it weakens it or disquiets or disturbs the soul, taking away its peace, tranquility and quiet, which it had before, it is a clear sign that it proceeds from the evil spirit, enemy of our profit and eternal salvation (Loyola Citation1951 [Citation1522–Citation1524]: 65).