It does not feel any differently than that pious prayers and thoughts flow up into heaven, and thus that the flow would go toward the inward regions, but the fact of the matter is entirely otherwise, and it is a fallacy to suppose this. For all life comes from the Lord, through the heavens in succession, or directly through the world of spirits. That it is fallacy may be evident both from the fact that spirits suppose that they speak my language and know everything I know, when yet this is a fallacy, and from the fact that coarser things can in no wise enter into finer things, as can be known to everyone. But the Lord's life passes through heaven, and it is varied according to the forms there. What these are like cannot be described. The more perfect a society's collective form is, the more truly and beautifully, and the more quickly and directly [the Lord's life] streams in. So it is a fallacy that any person on earth or any spirit can by their own thought or their own skill penetrate into heaven, or into spiritual and heavenly regions. But the more suited people, or the more suited their inward parts are to receiving [that life], the more truly and blessedly do the intermediate parts feel and perceive it. But the more unsuited the people, or the more unsuited their inward parts, then the more it is corrupted on the way. 1748, 22 Sept.