It has also been granted me to learn from experience that falsities very deeply imprinted, whatever they may be, indeed dreadful falsities contrary to every Divine, human, and natural law, can hardly be rooted out in the other life, because they have taken root too deeply and have tainted the whole person. In regard to this, a dreadful thing happened that a certain spirit had done and about which he had thoroughly convinced himself that it was something everyone did. So when he had come into that thought, his conviction spread itself so widely that there was hardly anyone of those around me who did not imagine themselves guilty of the huge crime. The spirit was discovered, and he said that he had assumed that this was commonplace with many and that there was nothing evil in it, so he had been of that conviction. About the same spirit it was also told that he is otherwise kind and brings evil on no one, but when in the conviction that this was not a great crime, he is like those who are insane in the life of the body who labor with that kind of insanity of not allowing themselves to be convinced when immersed in certain falsities, even dreadful ones. 1748, 11 Aug.