2506. People like this in bodily life want to feel enjoyment, in fact to take enjoyment of life away from others who are performing a use, yet they do not want to do anything useful. For this reason I was allowed to speak with them about how they are, and I was allowed to portray to them their similarity to insects of various kinds, noxious and filthy ones that were also actually pictured to them. Then I was prompted to speak about the joy of life, and the fact that enjoyment is human life, and that all things have been so created by the Lord that uses create enjoyment, as is obvious enough from the pleasures of the senses, such as taste, or such as sexual love, which, because they have a use with them, namely, that one may be nourished, or that of procreation, therefore to uses are added their enjoyments, and the enjoyments increase entirely according to the use. So it has been ordained, but those who seek enjoyments not originating from use, or from outward appearances without directing the mind to the use, they indeed feel enjoyments, albeit gross ones, but because they are not from use, or from the Lord through use, they are like those filthy and noxious insects, and are the kind that destroy societies and are the kind that destroy themselves, because within their enjoyments there is no spiritual and heavenly life. Consequently they become unhappy, for they are cast out of societies, and so they sit, lonely, and are purged until all the deceitfulness and inequity in them has been purged, so that they are no longer their own. 1748, 3 July.