The same spirit spoken of earlier [872], who so ardently longed for heaven, came to me once more, and was dressed in I think even shabbier clothing. He said that he was really burning with desire to come to heaven; but he was still seemingly reproachful, being among those spirits of Jupiter who are eager to punish. This time he showed me a new action he had not known of before, namely, a kind of gently pulsating one around the part of the back above the hipbones, where a motion occurs like that of shaking at the knees; and he explained that he was now in this condition. I told him that this was a sign of shortly coming into heaven, for the reason that I knew him to be one of the sort who correspond to the genital vessels, where the generative particles are clothed with something like crusts, membranes or mantles, so that they can safely tarry there and eventually be safely transferred into the womb, there to be broken down gradually until the enclosed spiritual elements find their way to the ova. His new kind of clothing told that he was now prepared for the exit; his action, that the moment was now at hand, for this is how the generative particles in the seminal vessels behave, when the time is at hand. His garment was now more crude, and in fact, having been told to cast off his clothing and thus come into heaven, he from his strong desire cast off his clothing so quickly that nothing could have been done more quickly. But this happened only for the sake of testing him, and of teaching me what the desires are like of those who relate to the seminal vessels in the other life. But he could not be received, as said [873-74], so he returned into his original state. Now he spoke with a forked tongue even worse [than before, 570], and was below the region where he had been before, being now in a shabbier condition on the outside. Those who later reach the point of passing from these bodily conditions to inward ones, and then on into what is heavenly, are brought by a way at the back, then between the knees, and are so raised up. 1748, 20 February.