There was a certain not evil, but serious spirit, who spoke with me, and I noticed that heaven was opened just a little into his inward parts, so that it would be observed what goodness was in him. He then began to wail, and to be tormented, begging that this condition might cease, for he could not stay in it on account of the distress. This and other experience makes it clear how dangerous it would be if heaven were opened into someone not having faith. For the person would be tortured even to death by pangs of conscience. 1748, 14 May. [In the original two small circles appear here with crosshatched marks in them.]