Toward the left rather low down at a distance, leftward from the old Jerusalem, is a place where they practice things that had been delightful in bodily life, such as sports, dancing and the like. Into this place those are led down who come recently from the bodily into the other life in order to practice such things there. For whatever pleasures and delights they had had in the life of the body return, and are permitted so that they may be shed. They spoke with me from there, and I was prompted to tell them that such activities are but outer ones that they hardly tell apart from inner ones until they receive a perception of inner ones. For such pleasures as these also wither away and become abominations, like other superficial enjoyments, which surely decay after a short time. 1748, 8 Sept.