3345. Today I saw an aura I had not seen before, during a conversation about the inhabitants of the earth Venus, namely, I saw an aura that seemed to be composed of mere human flesh, so that I perceived nothing else but a thorough humanity, although in general divided into distinct parts, thus [evidencing] human feelings, but not describable otherwise than as truly human. From this I realized what the inhabitants of Venus are like, namely inwardly human, but beneath the aura there was something animal-like that was not portrayed to me, but I was allowed to know about it by a perceptive thought, that is, what their outward qualities are like. 1748, 26 Sept.