816. For this reason, when souls are let into heaven, or into other regions pleasing to him, one cannot judge from this that they are to be angels and more acceptable than others, as it is commonly supposed. But because all things take place by permission and consent, they are therefore sent back, as it were, to the spirits, so that the spirits may find out as if on their own, secretly or openly, what [these souls] are like, and more or less judge about them in their own way. Nevertheless, all these circumstances are governed by the Lord. 1748, 16 February.