Very often when I was walking the streets, I was shown by the dreadful desires of certain spirits communicated to me, that they wanted to kill little children when they saw them. This happened often [cf. 2119, 2284, 2801]. Today a certain one in the world of spirits whom they did not at all suspect of such a thing, had this same desire in himself, which was exposed by the fact that something infantile was channeled to him, namely, an infantile innocence as of a little child, and as if [coming] through me. Upset by its presence, he said he was inwardly distressed and tormented, so he came up to me, where he still is at my back, and he cannot speak, because his spirit has been almost taken from him. From this we may learn what the world today is like, that there are people in the world whom one could never suspect of such a thing. He said that public executions had been enjoyable to him during his lifetime. 1748, 22 Aug.