About these states it has been said, and in many places shown, that only fantasies prevail that put on so much seeming reality that [the souls] think they can touch and feel things, like clothing and such, just as in the body. Accordingly, they seem to themselves to be actually in underground vaults, or in a high heaven above the rest, when yet they are scattered over the whole world. If the fantasies are simply bent or turned, those in the lowest places can seem to themselves to be in the highest, and so forth. 1747, the 24th day of December.* * 390 is lacking in the original.