I saw an amazing thing in mental imagery, after having observed those female spirits [230], that is, when I was grieving at the existence of such in the other life whom I judged would be of no use. There was a remarkable symbolic display during an interval of some time, portraying how insanity, blended in various ways, would still gently and sweetly touch the mind. So that I might perceive this better, there was also present an element of understanding, something like an eye, which was observing, and considered this as pure insanity. But by an amazing interweaving, so to speak, something was being portrayed all the while that resembled lace, meaning that it could be converted to something beautiful in appearance. But that eye of understanding prevented me from being touched by any pleasure, about which I complained, and indeed there was someone who was looking on these things, indignant that I was apparently being moved by insanities thus intertwined, and I realized that if that element of understanding had not been there, I could have been quite moved, and in fact by a new pleasure I had not experienced before in this way. Therefore, while I was considering further what would become of those unhappy, seemingly insane souls in the other life, and what use they might be to themselves and others - because nothing is ever permitted by God the Messiah apart from the goal of use in His Kingdom - I finally realized that as a consequence of the influence of such souls as these, pleasures could be produced similar to those that flow into innocents and wonderfully affect them. It is of course through the Divine omnipotence that they are arranged like wonderful interlacing patterns of such a kind that from them, pleasures can be woven together and touch blessed minds, especially young children, and thus innocents. So from insanities, even the saddest and most unpleasant ones, God the Messiah disposing, gladness and pleasures can be produced and grow as if by germinating, just like an abundant crop of standing corn out of the dust of the ground. I was also allowed to get from angels of God the Messiah the feeling of a kind of gladness, from the fact that even such states of actual unhappiness and unpleasantness could be useful, together with the hope that those among these women who are being enlightened in matters of belief in God the Messiah, might also be able to feel pleasures from a different source, composed of things opposite, or the little eyes of understanding. 1747, the 29th day of October (old calendar). mThese things have been described to some extent, so that some kind of a portrayal of spirits and angels may be discerned.n