154. CONCERNING EVIL SPIRITS THAT THEY ARE ABLE TO LIE DOWN AND FEED WITH THOSE WHO ARE FAITHFUL, ACCORDING TO ISAIAH XI. 4-7 Today it has also been demonstrated to me by living experience, how the evil, even the worst of the devil's crew, could be present and use the greatest diligence to destroy those things that are of faith; but although they labored to the utmost degree, they were without any force or power. Thus it was shown me to the life, that they can lie down together and feed together; indeed, they were fed together, for thus they heard those things that are of faith. 1747, Aug. 19 o.s. The words in Isaiah 11:4-7 signify how evils can be in man and yet not harm him; thus that when a man lives in the hand of God Messiah, he fears nothing perpetrated by the evil; similarly in the Church, and also in the heavenly kingdom, at this day and hereafter, when the evil spirits will learn. But these are arcane things which are to be set forth discreetly.