I was allowed to see quite clearly by a spiritual mental image, and also spoke with spirits about the matter, that spirits would experience the greatest joy, each in keeping with their own condition, if everyone were content with their own lot and did not ambition things above them to which their fantasy draws them. Indeed, they would have such joy, each one, that it would be their highest. For everyone has their joy according to their own condition, and when they ambition what is higher, they do this from a fantasy, as everyone may understand. For instance, if a farmer were given a royal court, with attendants and sumptuous furnishings, he would be very discontent and would long to return to his cottage and servants, his field and meadows, in which he takes the greatest delight. So in other cases that I was prompted to portray to them, as also the opposite, which I was likewise given to experience, that when some spirits were lifted up to inward joys, they desired to return. Such heaven and the world of spirits would be, namely, each one in their highest joy, if they would be content with their lot that the Lord gave them, and would not from fantasy desire higher things. 1748, 4 July.