I was enabled today, as also earlier, to experience several states that are entirely unknown to mankind, and indeed, many of them ineffable, and if one should attempt to form any idea of them by words, they would still be entirely unintelligible, consequently unbelievable. For example, from a scientific truth alone an entire state of affection can be formed, or one in which the affection is dominant and there is more or less of truth. Nor indeed can states like these be communicated to those who lack truth regarding earthly subjects and truth regarding spiritual subjects. Hence it is also clear that unlimited varieties of these states exist.

[2585 1/2.] Since such ineffable and completely unintelligible states of delights exist in the inward spiritual world, what must there not be in the inward heaven, from which these states have their nearest origin and where each state exists with unlimited variety? For the least thing in the spiritual world that appears as a single unit consists at a deeper level of an unlimited number of such varieties, in fact each variety having its own unlimitedness of composition.