One spirit who had been extremely famous and most acclaimed on account of his doctrines, came upwards toward me from below, thus from the lower earth. He was cold, as I plainly felt from the cold blast. He said that he had heard what I had discussed with others, but that of the heavenly and spiritual things, he had understood nothing, even though he had been one of the main writers on those subjects; nor did he understand what even a spirit of the lower sort knows, or even want to learn it. He was therefore rebuked and told that this was one thing necessary in this life. He did not know that he was in the other life. 1748, the 27th day of January.