906. An angel was telling others by an angelic method how many kinds of happiness there are in the inward heaven.* He did this by an enumeration and an angelic portrayal of them to the clear sight of the angels. But that display was not visible to me except in the form of wave-like motions, and from them I was able to learn in a general way that only the kinds of happiness of the inward heaven were being gone through. Those enumerated and vividly portrayed during the first 4 to 6 minutes amounted to 478, thus almost 500; so I would put it at 500. Since there are that many kinds of happiness in the inward heaven, one can infer from this how many species there are, since countless species exist in each kind, and in turn how many individual types of happiness there are, since a countless number of these exist in each species. And there are many further subdivisions, such as particulars of the individual types, when each of these in turn is taken as a species or as a whole kind, lower or higher, as it is within a society where that specific or individual type of happiness abides. * See 262 and footnote 3.