By plain experience, I have learned that the curse of the wicked, or the devil's curse and all his other devices, cannot in the least harm or touch those who are in the Hand of God the Messiah, that is, in God the Messiah. This was shown me by a curse being read, and turned by devils into a display, with the intent of applying it to some devout person; but the power was granted to me to have the depiction of that curse turn around toward me. While others shuddered at it, it was even permitted to enter into my mouth and inner parts, because of the confidence that nothing of this kind, thus nothing of the devil's curse, can hurt or even touch those who are in God the Messiah. Today also, obsessed by the devil's gang when he was practicing his cunning tricks upon me in vain, I was finally distanced from the incessant, combined curses that were being aimed at my heart. For several hours they kept coming, so aimed; but at the time I was really unable to feel the curses except by perceptible heart-palpitations, as well as by a certain feeling in the inward parts of my body arising from them. They even slipped into my thoughts their wish that I despair of life - as if they can achieve anything by that - but still nothing whatever can harm or even touch [me]. 1747, the 11th day of December.* * The manuscript has "die 11 Dec." for this passages probably written on the 10th.