327. NOTHING CAN BE HARMFUL TO HIM WHO IS IN GOD MESSIAH I have learnt by manifest experience that the curse of the impious and of the devil, with his other artifices, cannot in the least injure or affect those who are in the hand of God Messiah, that is, who are in God Messiah. This was shown to me by the fact, that a curse was read and turned by the devils into a representation, with the intention of transferring it to someone pious. But the power was granted me of bringing the representation of that curse upon myself; although the others abhorred it, it was also permitted to enter even into my mouth and viscera, in the confidence that no such thing, thus that nothing of the devil's curse, can injure, still less affect those who are in God Messiah. Today I was also obsessed by the devil's crew, when they exercised their artifices in vain. At length, I was removed from the continued curses, combined and directed towards my heart, continued and directed in this manner for some hours, and then indeed I could not feel those curses, except by the sensible palpitations of my heart, and also by a certain affection of the interiors of the body thence arising, and likewise by an insinuation into my thoughts, that they wanted me to despair of my life, as though they could thence effect something; but still nothing can ever injure, still less affect. 1747, Dec. 11.