Some were also admitted into the very inward heaven, with whom I had spoken and whom I had known, who had deceased only several months before, and some a few years before. These also were admitted into certain habitations of the very inward heaven, that they might see heavenly glory there [cf. 268], and perceive it by sense, as well as hear it. But because they could not yet be in such a state that they could remain there, they were therefore encircled by an angelic field by which all discordance is taken away, so that the angels of that habitation could not be harmed or troubled thereby. 1747, the 6th day of December.