By a vivid experience, it has become known to me that the Tongue belongs as well to the spiritual as the heavenly regions, and that through it a passage stands open in both directions, namely, from the spiritual to the heavenly, and the reverse, on which account also it is at the forefront of both the lungs and the cardiac system. This appears more clearly from the double function of the tongue, in that it belongs to spiritual parts through speech, and to heavenly parts through taste; so that those who constitute the province of the Tongue are the kind through whose midst one passes from spiritual to heavenly regions. 1748, 24 February.