238. Empty thoughts cannot rise up higher than to the third heaven,* for there are Cherubim, as they are called [cf. Gen. 3:24], who keep guard, and who turn those things which are false and evil into truth and goodness, and at last into innocencies, of which the innermost heaven consists. 1747, the 3rd day of November (old calendar). * I.e. the last, or third in descending order.