2516. It was granted me to add that in this Kingdom, which is eternal, there are nothing but joys and happiness, and these are not due to presumed dignity or being privileged above others, but due to mutual love. What else, I asked, do they seek in the world through dignities and wealth, but to obtain joys and, as they suppose, to be happy? In the kingdom of the Lord, that which they are seeking by those means they obtain without them, because those means destroy happiness and take away from others their joys. So by those means they cannot be given the joys they want from their passion for dignity and preeminence. 1748, 4 July.