While I was walking on the street, I was let back into almost the original state, so that I was not speaking or thinking among spirits, although the state continued of being among good spirits, but not evil ones. And I observed how a person is then bent by the Lord away from passions through convictions arising from uses-thus into passions by the evil, and out of passions by the good, and I was given to realize how easily this happened in that state. Evil spirits could not stream in without being at once bent [away]. 1748, 24 Aug.