When by the mercy of God the Messiah I was being conducted through several habitations of the inward heaven,* it was also granted me to see, not nearby, a great sea, swelling with huge breakers that dashed against some unseen shore. It was told that such are the fantasies of those who want to be great in the world and to innovate all things, and in this way acquire glory for themselves. Thus it is the swelling of their mind that produces this kind of a fantasy. 1747, the 29th day of November. [Cf. 243.] * See 262, footnote 3.