There are souls who, being raised up into a certain heavenly joy, spoke with me about the heavenly joy. I was prompted to tell them that any soul may experience heavenly joy, even the evil, but one or another state of it, and that there are countless most general states with their variations. So they cannot experience other than very few of the joys of heaven, others none at all. I was also inspired to say that the variations of general states also have their own order, or that there is an order of general states, as well as perpetual changes to eternity, but entirely according to the Lord's good pleasure. 1748, 1 Aug.