420. THAT THERE ARE THOSE WHO ALSO ADORE THE INFANT CHRIST, AS THOSE WHO CARRY [HIS IMAGE] There are also those who from innocence, and also from innocent simplicity, adore God Messiah as an infant; from their simplicity and from their innocence they are also introduced, but they do not long remain there. For they are innocences and simplicities, of which there is peace, in which is innocence. Still there is what is heavenly there, which I could recognize from the joy thence transferred to me. I am forbidden to write the other things, for the reason that they adore men and expose their images in every temple, in each house, in villages and in cross-roads, which is altogether forbidden. Those, however, who do this from simplicity, and thus from innocence, are excused. 1747, Dec. 30.* * In the Index (s.v. Infans, Idola) it is added: "Those who adore the Lord as an infant, but not in simplicity and innocence, as do idolaters, are rejected."