264. There are also spirits who continually direct their attention to those things which are against truths and goods, studying how they can pervert these truths and goods: and they do this sensibly and so subtly, that if it were related it could scarcely be believed: I have sometimes marveled when I have observed truths and goods to be thus turned by spirits into what is perverse. But those spirits hide themselves more than others, and are more invisible, so that I almost believed that they could not be found; but yet they were found, and some of them were punished and cast out. The punishment is such as answers to their criminal attempts. 1747, Nov. 23, o.s.