This last night I was awakened by very evil spirits, who tried to destroy heavenly qualities, bringing upon me a delicate feeling that resembled the feeling of heavenly delights, and even the feeling of marital delight, so that one could scarcely tell the difference. But being warned, I learned that these [delights] were all fake and counterfeit. For [the spirits] were deriving this feeling from their enjoyment in destroying, by their own methods, what is heavenly, and were transferring it to me in the way you may see described above [379]. So a person can never tell what is diabolical and what is heavenly apart, except from God the Messiah, therefore by belief in God the Messiah. 1747, the 25th day of December.