There was someone of great dignity in bodily life, and among the wisest of the world, even so esteemed in the other life that no one would injure him, because in his life he had been driven by great zeal for the doctrine of faith. However, it was shown what kind of an idea he had had of the state of the happy in the other life, namely, that heavenly joy consisted in the luster of glory, like the light when golden solar rays appear, in which light-which he called harlighetssken*-he imagined heavenly joy to consist, and that if he came into it, he would then be in heaven. So a light of this kind was actually given him, and he was in the midst of that light. Then he was so delighted, as he even said, that he was in heaven. So this showed what kind of an idea of heavenly joy and of heaven the wisest in this world have, with manifold variety. They are quite thoroughly unaware what the happiness from mutual love is, even though that happiness is displayed to them in the love of offspring and its pleasure, which, however, because it is bodily with the inhabitants of our earth, and therefore superficial, is not at all comparable with heavenly happiness. 1748, 26 Sept. Later he was asked whether, since he is so wise, he could not infer to some extent what heavenly joy is like, just from marriage love, which he had called, and others call, heaven on earth-as he could infer from the fact that heaven is likened to a marriage, and the Church is called the bride and wife, and that marriages are symbolic, and hence is the Law from the Lord that there should be but one wife. 1748, 26 Sept. * Swedish for "shine of glory."