While by the mercy of God the Messiah I was being guided through several habitations of the inward heaven,* I was also led through a habitation where heat at once occupied my feet and loins, and then I was told that here the kind of women were who had indulged in a life of bodily pleasure, but had nevertheless desired children; one of them even seemed to me to be pregnant. This habitation is therefore quite unlike one in which women were who had had no desire for children, where I had felt no heat. The conclusion follows that these women, even though they had indulged in pleasures, still had not extinguished the natural desire of love, which is to procreate offspring. * See 262, footnote 3.