2481. For this is the nature of evil spirits. Whatever there is of good and truth, from an innate urge they at once resist, reject-rejecting them as falsities, and eagerly accepting untruths, which are extremely flattering to them because they agree with and favor them. 1748, 1 July. Their resistance I was prompted to compare with smells, for their aura contrary to truths makes up their character, so that the moment a truth comes along there is something unpleasant that strikes the sense of smell. This they also are now hearing and cannot help acknowledging, for they have at times been told that they produce an aura of that kind, because I have been made to sensate it. So these things have been told from pure experience. 1748, 1 July.