Today when I was extracting the passages contained in Is. 34 about a universal destruction, evil demons and spirits could not restrain the desire to exaggerate them and to unleash their fury, and their state of cruelty was so intense that they grieved that the universe was not being destroyed. Then each of them [wanted to vent his fury] on the other, to the point of wanting nothing to be left, and barely himself. For that desire originates from an inner self-hatred. 1747, the 29th day of August (old calendar).