3028. When good spirits become angry, they sometimes burst forth all at once into such behavior as one cannot tell but that it comes from the worst
It has sometimes happened that I noticed some dreadful things, supposing them to be an outpouring of the worst [spirits], but it turned out to be from upright ones when they all at once grow angry, and in fact for the reason that they are not being allowed to do good. Thus they burst out by anger into the opposite, just as an upright earthly human is apt to do when angered. 1748, 1 Sept.
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