1964. I was shown also in several ways how spirits had acquired from their life in the body a harmony, and a consequent pleasure, for example in speaking against, in plotting against, marriage love, and attempting to break it down, and above all in the [resulting] acts of wickedness. Indeed, they do this with such enjoyment, that they consider nothing more enjoyable. Their enjoyments have sometimes been communicated to me, as spoken of elsewhere [see 379, 399], and sometimes shown by [the opposite states of] boredom and displeasure, sometimes by the confessions of those engrossed in their pleasures-thus on countless occasions, by actual experience. Their life consists in the pleasures they had acquired, so there are as many diversities of life as there are and have been, and will be, people on earth and spirits; and if they went on increasing to eternity, still there would be distinct differences. This is confirmed and obvious just from the [diversity] of faces and of speech. 1748, 16 May.