654. About the punishment of those who want to counterfeit what is holy

Those who like to counterfeit what is holy, thus deceive people by sacred illusions and the like, receive this punishment: what is holy separates itself from them, resulting in sores upon their body, scabies, leprosy, lice, and similar afflictions, depending upon [the nature of] their profanation. I was given to understand this from spirits who had been up to such practices. 1748, 6 February.