3041. When dealing with forms and the fact that they compose the grand human being and shape its members or provinces, and that those who have not been initiated in a society so as to act as one to the glory of the Lord, are not in the grand human being, I sensed an indignation from the world of spirits because they were not also among those constituting the grand human being. But they-the evil ones first-received the reply that they cannot be among them before they have been cast like manure to the earth and then from there have entered in like those elements that serve the sap of a plant or tree. Only then they can be in the society or in the tree. To others, also evil, the reply was given that they cannot be regarded as anything but what has been let down into the stomach and, because it contains nothing conducive to nutrition, is again cast out as dung: and so it would be if they were admitted into those choirs or forms. Some were still insisting that they wanted to be in them, and this was permitted; but they were told that they could not, because they were so gross. 1748, 2 Sept.