A church cannot serve two masters. It cannot peacefully coexist with truths and falsities. To want to live with both and to seek a compromise will cause the church to be laid to waste. The church will perish, and the goods and truths of the Word will be taken away from it.

4763. About Char[les] XII ¹ , and the love of rule

He was present with me for a long while. At first he was such as he had been in outward appearance and then behaved quite properly, which lasted for a year. Nevertheless, time and again the immoral things within him burst out. After this he was sent into his interior state in which he had been in the world. Inwardly he had thought that no one in the world could notice, nor did he want to be noticed. Also, it was discovered that through the years he had spoken with spirits. These conversations with them were replayed for days, namely, what was said and how he had answered, that he had not only been instructed about the Lord and about such things as pertain to the Church, but was also often warned and chastised, and that he was also warned to leave home and make peace.

[2] But he did not want to do this. He always wanted to be the greatest of all. But when this was refused, he decided to wipe out the name of the Lord with atheistic teachings. He also then began to love such people, that is to say atheists, from the heart, and made arrangements for having them at hand when he annihilated religion. And he also rushed into immoral activities that ought not to be mentioned (dogs) and like things that were immoral. Nevertheless, in outer appearance he had concealed such things. He did this even at the time when he was at peace.

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