701. After these events, they were introduced into the inward heaven,* as I was told by a clear voice saying that they were admitted in this way when they had been in the heaven of spirits for a certain length of time. Therefore no one more could be let in, however much they cried out and insisted. This is what is meant by those who had come too late, because they had lacked oil in their lamps. They received the reply that they could no longer be admitted, whereupon they were turned away. * See 262 and footnote 3.