Taking shelter in ego, power, arrogance, desire, and anger, these envious people hate Me dwelling in their own bodies and in the bodies of others.

Here the spiritual consequence of the demonic nature is stated with stark directness: they hate Me — the Divine — dwelling in their own bodies and in the bodies of others. This is the deepest form of the demonic condition: not merely the rejection of God as a philosophical position but an active hatred of the divine presence that is everywhere, including within themselves. When they mistreat themselves through their vices, they are hating God within. When they mistreat others, they are hating God in those others. The five supports of their existence — ego, power, arrogance, desire, anger — are the five walls of a prison they have constructed to avoid the encounter with the Real. And the Real, being everywhere, is the thing they most resent.