By much experience I have also been enabled to learn that evil spirits especially hate little children. Quite often when I have seen little children, they wanted to hurt them in various ways, even to kill them, as I was given to know from seeing their fantasies. Children's objects, things that give little ones joy, they also hate-in short, anything pertaining to little children. The reason is that little children are innocent beings, and it is innocent people most of all that they persecute and hate. I asked them whether they would like to do the same to their own little children. They said they would not-only to other people's children, and that they cannot refrain from that kind of hatred. The reason is that they hate the Lord, Who Alone is Innocence. 1748, 10 June.