2311. This showed clearly that in the whole world of spirits, hatred against Truth and Goodness reigns, consequently against the Lord. For I was not able to get even the very least feeling in which that hatred was not predominating, and which it did not twist in a remarkable way and corrupt. And this was happening in the whole complex of that world, which would influence all people on earth, completely turning them away from all truth and goodness, and completely corrupting truth and goodness, if the Lord did not rule the universe. I was made to experience this most plainly in the sight of angels, and of others who up till then had not wanted to believe that the Lord rules the universe. 1748, 12 June.