I was inspired to tell spirits that the world's joys, worldly and bodily things separated from spiritual and heavenly ones, are no different than the extravasations of blood such as occur in wounds, blisters and the like, in which the lymph and extravasated blood gathers and eventually putrefies (blifwer wahr*), for they are separated from the tissues, comparatively as pleasures of the body and nature are separated from their spiritual and heavenly principles. I was enabled to portray this by a spiritual mental image, and they acknowledged it. 1748, 17 Aug. * Swedish for "becomes pus."