717. Furthermore, there is a way to heaven, as said above [697-706]. Below is hell, then the lower earth (these are known by another name as well), then the heaven of spirits, next the inward heaven,* then the very inward, finally the innermost. Everywhere the same process is occurring, but with much difference in this respect, that in the lower earth, and in the heaven of spirits, they obtain what is delightful to them, thus being transferred from one society to another; while evil spirits [undergo this process] in the opposite manner, namely, by punishments, and thus unwillingly. 1748, 10 February. * See 262 and footnote 3.