There was a spirit known to me in life who had appeared in outer form or to people's eyes as a kind, affable, sincere person, to the point that no one unacquainted with his inward qualities would know differently than that he was a very good Christian. He was with me hiding [his character] for some time, nor was anything of evil to be discerned on the surface, but he was exposed together with others like him by his hatred of little children. For wherever I was seeing little children, I sensed something murderous and cruel coming from certain spirits, as if they wanted to kill them. So he was exposed, and examined, and found to be harboring inwardly hatred against acquaintances, friends, benefactors, even though by his outer expression he simulated entirely different sentiments. So the quality of someone on earth is never known from the face, but in the other life it is well known. 1748, 24 Aug.