2554. Afterwards I was inspired to speak a little about the apparent inflow of my thoughts into heaven, saying that it is not an inflow from the person on earth into heaven, for what is on a lower level, and so gross, can never penetrate to an inward level, consequently to things prior, even though it may so appear. But the reason for this appearance is that the Lord causes something to flow from heaven into the thoughts, and it is only an appearance that it flows from my thoughts into heaven. But since the cause cannot be evident except by spiritual mental imagery, therefore they were shown somewhat by this means how things stand in regard to causes. But this was a matter of fact, and the truth, that the Lord flows into human thoughts and is therefore present in the lower as in the higher regions, and when He pleases, flows through heaven into the thoughts. In both cases it can appear as if the thoughts of a person on earth were flowing in. But it is entirely contrary to order and to all sound reason that the lower can flow into the higher, or the outward into the inward, or speaking like the philosophers, the posterior into the prior or the grosser into the purer. 1748, 7 July.