For many reasons I can assert that souls and spirits, by mere fantasies, were able to bring painful torments not only upon each other, but even upon people on earth. No one may ever believe this, but still it is so true that I can fully affirm it from experience not only in myself - indeed, quite much and frequent experience - but also from [that of] souls and spirits when they were being tormented, as well as from the strong sensation the souls [experienced] from fantasies like these - which they affirm most emphatically. For every kind of sense is produced in souls as if it were a physical one, such as sight, smell, taste, hearing, yes even desires and appetites - so strong, that they hardly occur in the body so strongly. So this applies also to sensations of pain. Most violent ones would be brought on by the diabolic gang, if God the Messiah did not save souls from such a hell. 1747, the 21st day of December.