In the habitations of the very inward heaven, there is such a keen perception, or recognition by perception, that when a soul or angel of a different kind or genus, or else of a different species, is present, then in a miraculous way they either turn away, or they are moved by the harmony. It is by this method that they who are being driven around in the more inward heaven are admitted; and while they are passing through the changes between many states, then by a remarkable inward sense it becomes known, more and more, whether, and in what way, they are discordant. So they are either held off a little, or else they are brought in at a place where the disagreement is not so noticeable, with the result that the heavenly form of that particular species [of angel] is shaped within that genus and is thus continually perfected, even to such a degree of perfection that anything more perfect is inconceivable. 1747, the 6th day of December.