516. As for the second kind, namely, the veil [see 434-5], we on earth cannot be submitted to this either, for we know we are in the body, and cannot be thus concealed from any except a blind eye, nor be thus driven about to seek escape, because we know we are in the body. But in place of that punishment we have this: when we want to recall truths to mind, or to write them down - even lucid and well thought-out truths - then the ideas are taken away, both in their general and particular form, and we cannot recall anything at all to memory. We are allowed to see something, as when a light is lit and then taken away or put out, and meanwhile we become inflamed with the desire to know it or write it down, and at the same time with indignation, and the determination to proceed, or even a [prompting from] the conscience not to give up. These things in man correspond to [punishment by] veils with spirits, which are said to be of various kinds and species in spirits. 1748, the 23rd day of January.* * Paragraphs 517-18 have been placed, as indicated by the author, after 521.