Today, from early morning until noon, I was among and spoke with those who had been in the inward heaven and had been transferred into the very inward heaven [cf. 265]. A conversation was able to be carried on with them, but through an intermediary angel, who told me this, namely, that he had now been made a sort of medium to establish communication from me to them. They said that there was joy, and peace, such as a person could never feel even the least bit in mortal life, and which was eternally changing. In order that I might feel this happiness to some degree, an Angel came to me. Other happy ones surrounded the Angel, and they approached toward me, and then, only from its proximity, the joy and happiness so penetrated my innermost parts and, as they say, the deepest marrows, that I would not have been able to sustain it, without almost dissolving from innermost joy. 1747, the 4th day of December. * See 262, footnote 3.