By the mercy of God the Messiah, I was raised up into the very inward heaven, as told [293, 299], and spoke with the angels. It was granted me there, only by the mercy of God the Messiah, to be in their company for a little while, which miracle was due to the way in which the angels around me were arranged. In this way I was taught about the matters previously related, and thus I could feel, even though very faintly, what it is like, and that without heavenly harmony and an agreement of characters, and without having attained the [necessary] state through the purging process, it is impossible for anyone to live among them. Such joys as these also arise from the most delicate, and humanly imperceptible, or sublime, mental imagery, that makes it an entirely heavenly paradise, with absolute and inexpressible joy in endless variation. For the displays are so alive as to surpass, by leagues beyond number, any that a person on earth is able to picture to himself, or even think up. Such joy results from mutual love, and from the sentiment of all, that none want to be their own, but each individual fervently desires from deepest affection to belong to all. But the words are lacking, to be able to express these matters. 1747, the 5th day of December.