3382. It is imparted to me that the men and descendents of the old Church had had similar most delightful dreams, and thence, by a perception imparted to them as it is to me, [knew] what they meant; hence their Paradisal dreams and more phenomena familiar to that period. For they saw not only delightful things received an understanding, as I have so many times that I am unable to enumerate the instances, so as to know generally what they meant. That most ancient Church was therefore symbolic in regard to all things they had seen, so that they thought at once regarding the objects of sight, what they symbolized. For they were constantly seeing such things with innermost delight.