What "very inward things" are, no one among men or spirits, scarcely anyone among the angels of the inward heaven,* as yet knows. For, something very inward, those who are inward cannot understand, thinking that [what is more inward] would dissolve them, and they would become as nothing, because of regarding inward things as everything - just as a person living [on earth] does in bodily things. But there is as great a difference between them as between what is vile and what is precious, or between a cottage and a very large city. But that which they cannot see, they think to be nothing, when yet it is the ineffable, which "no eye has seen, nor any ear has heard" [Is. 66:4, 1 Cor. 2:9]. And it is that from which everything comes that is harmonious and inwardly or more inwardly delightful within the symbolic displays of the inward heaven,* while the inward heaven itself sees only the outside, or the shapes. * See 262 and footnote 3.