What the cruelty of the hellish gang is like, can never be described. In their fantasies they carry on in the most hostile manner toward others, committing such cruelties against them that if they should be described, [all] would shudder. For if they were able to carry out the cruelties as in their fantasies, their butcheries would be more cruel than those of even the fiercest wild animals. In their fantasies they seem to pull out executioner's axes, and other instruments of death; and if God the Messiah did not subdue their savagery, those they intend to torment would actually feel most severely tortured. For the power of fantasies among souls is such that it can bring on a physical-like sensation and, accordingly, one of excruciating pain. These sensations God the Messiah erases, and indeed, He takes the deadly instruments away from them. In short, there are more horrible things than anyone could ever believe. The human race, which is worse than the fiercest wild animals, would have practiced such cruelties, had not God the Messiah saved them, and redeemed them, and did He not continually free them from the pains of hell. 1747, the 21st day of December.