2552. Seeking eagerly for the cause, I recalled to mind the dream about the birds, and I was given to learn that there was something in heaven-a certain conversation among those there about thoughts, which birds symbolize in the world of spirits-about which they had been talking. For such things cannot happen in the world of spirits except by the inflow of heaven, where birds are not at all being thought about, but meditations and thoughts. I was instructed by those who were in the inward world of spirits, who are communicators, that there had been a discussion in heaven in a certain society about the inflow of an earthly being's thoughts that penetrate even to heaven-whether from human thinking they flow into heaven. It would be contrary to order, however,