189. CONCERNING THE EXTREME CUPIDITY OF EVIL GENII AND SPIRITS FOR VASTATING AND TORTURING MAN Today, when I was extracting those passages contained in Isaiah xxxiv concerning the universal vastation, evil genii and spirits could not refrain from the cupidity of exaggerating them, and of exercising their rage until they were in such a cruel state that they grieved that the universe was not destroyed. Thus each raged against the other, so that each desired that nothing should continue to exist, and scarcely even himself, for that cupidity arises from their own intestine hatred. 1747, Aug. 29, o.s.