2627. But bread cut with a knife is that which counterfeits what is heavenly and yet is not heavenly, as is the case with everything made artificially. So the bread offered to me, because it was cut into squares as if by knives, or into little cubes, symbolized filthy pleasures, spoken of earlier [2614], which those who are immersed in filthy pleasures consider as heavenly, when yet they are hellish. 1748, 16 July.