One spirit was with me today, speaking with me for a while, who during his life in the body had been brought up with no faith, and had not believed in life after death. He was thought by the busy robbers to be one of them [see 1155]. This spirit was able to speak as one of the heavenly spirits, that is, as fluently as a stream [see 1146], and yet he was evil. So one cannot conclude from a spirit's speaking and its flow that he is heavenly. One knows that he is heavenly from the fact that he loves to speak about matters of belief, thus that he understands matters of faith. But this spirit, when anything was said about the Kingdom of the Lord, could not follow the conversation but seemed to draw back. Then one hears immediately what he is like. 1748, 4 March.