For a long time, and more than a year now, I have very frequently and, in fact, daily experienced that almost everything coming out of the very inward heaven, which I had also been allowed by the mercy of God the Messiah to perceive, was turned into the contrary, and thus into evil; and it surprised me for a long time, how they were able so suddenly to find those opposite and contrary things. But finally I was given to understand that those demons who at this day still inhabit the last heaven, or hover about there, especially those who inhabit hell, turn what is good into a contrary and thus responding evil, as well as turning what is true into a responding falsity. Turning truth into falsity is typical of the last heaven, and in fact they did this so suddenly and skillfully that I could not but marvel. I was also given to learn that they did not even know what was being done in the very inward heaven, but nevertheless corrupted it into the opposite, so that there was [in that last heaven] a sort of conversion of all goodness into evil, like the inward heaven's [conversion] of truths into falsity - as happened today: while I was reading [the word] "Chaldeans," they suddenly turned it into "Jews," which was the contrary. 1747, the 27th day of October (old calendar).