3347. But the inhabitants of Venus were examined, and they are indeed such as to delight exceedingly in plundering, so they obtain the pleasure of their life from that source. But still they are not cruel. Of course, they kill the people they plunder, but those whom they are able to save, they save. In fact they later bury those whom they cast into water and thus kill, so they also have something human within-differently from the Jews, to whom it was even delightful to throw those they had slaughtered to the wild animals and birds, to be devoured. I see some such now, they are Jews of today who take pleasure in such things. I received something out of the aura of some spirits hurrying up this way and fleeing away. 1748, 26 Sept.