GENERAL EXAMEN OF CONSCIENCE TO PURIFY ONESELF AND TO MAKE ONE’S CONFESSION BETTER I presuppose that there are three kinds of thoughts in me: that is, one my own, which springs from my mere liberty and will; and two others, which come from without, one from the good spirit, and the other from the bad. THOUGHT There are two ways of meriting in the bad thought which comes from without, namely: First Way. A thought of committing a mortal sin, which thought I resist immediately and it remains conquered.