407. I will add here a surprising fact. In the spiritual world I have seen fathers who looked upon babies presented to their gaze with hatred, almost with fury, and so fiercely that they wanted to kill them if they could. But as soon as they were told (which was untrue) that they were their own babies, their fury and ferocity at once departed, and they loved them madly. They can feel this love and that hatred at the same time, if in the world they had been inwardly deceitful and acquired a disposition inimical to the Lord.