What might surprise everyone is that those who had seemed in the world to be enlightened beyond others from the Word of the Lord had conceived a false idea of heaven, namely, imagining they are in heaven when they are high up, and that they can control from there everything below, thus be in the glory of themselves and eminence above others. This was shown to me, for from a fantasy conceived in the world, they were brought up on high, and permitted from there as it were to rule something in the lower regions, imagining they were then in the heaven of their fantasy, when yet the contrary is the case. 1748, 5 Sept.