286. Further, I was told afterwards from heaven that those abide there who have so little left [of what is human] that they remain there for centuries, and that there are people there who have been there already for twenty centuries. I was also told that there is no one there today from among those who perished at the time of the flood (these were released from that dreadful hellish vat), and who have been created anew.
286 1/2. Later, when I was arising from bed, that devil [282, 284] was amazed that I lived on the earth. These things I saw in full wakefulness, accompanied by conscious thought, as well as speech; so that this is the untarnished truth. 1747, the 1st day of December.
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