Certain spirits of Jupiter were with me (at first they did not want to come because they knew the spirits here to be evil). Some of them were here nevertheless, and some of the spirits of this planet were permitted to operate by inspiring their own evils cunningly, deceitfully, [even] openly. Some of these evils I felt, for they were inward spirits at work, and I doubt that I was experiencing them for the first time. Then the inward evil spirits were driving at them evil things that they sustained for a long time: for it concerned the Lord. Finally they admitted that they considered it utterly impossible that worse spirits existed. 1748, 3 Sept. For they were corrupting their mental imagery and thoughts in such a way that they were almost bound, so that they hardly seemed able to extricate themselves-which I also felt in myself.