It has occurred many times that when anything evil had happened to spirits, they attributed it to the one from whom the evil [came], not to themselves [see also 2438-9]. To this I was as often prompted to say that they are the causes of that evil, which they did not understand because they viewed it as having arisen from someone else as the cause, and happening to them. Today likewise this was demonstrated to them, when someone had actually directed an evil [toward me], the same evil was then bent back from me to him. When he ascribed it to me, I was likewise inspired to say that not I, but he, had done the evil to himself, even though it appears otherwise. And then by a spiritual mental image I was enabled to show this to him, namely that through spirits near [him] and then by those farther away, his evil, which he is actually aiming [at me], turns itself around, and was finally seen to be bent back toward him by those spirits who are with me, as if it had been done by me. For this reason he ascribed it to me. When this was shown them by a spiritual mental image, they all said with one mouth that this had been made so clear to them that they fully realized that evil returns in this way to him who actually aims it. As for myself, I could do nothing else but go along, so it did appear as if it came from me. 1748, 9 Aug.