What man's initial or primitive [form] is in the womb after conception no one can know, since it cannot be seen; moreover, it is formed out of spiritual substance, which is not visible by natural light. Now since there are some in the world who turn their minds to searching out even the primitive form of man, that is, the seed from the father by which conception is effected, and since many of them have fallen into the error, that man is in his fulness from his first beginning, which is the rudiment, and is afterwards perfected by growth, it has been disclosed to me what that rudiment or first is in its form. This has been disclosed to me by angels, to whom it was revealed by the Lord; and because they had made it part of their wisdom, and it is a delight of their wisdom to communicate what they know to others, permission having been granted, they presented before my eyes in the light of heaven a type of man's initial form, which was like this. It seemed like a tiny image of the brain with a delicate delineation of something of a face in front without any appendage. This primitive in the upper convex part was a structure of globules or spherules touching one another, and each spherule was a compounding of those yet more minute, and each of these in like manner of those still more minute; it was thus of three degrees. In front, in the flat part, something outlined appeared to represent a face. The convex part was covered round about with a skin or membrane so fine as to be transparent. The convex part, which was a type of the brain in least forms, was also divided into two lobes, as it were, just as the brain in its greatest extent is divided into two hemispheres. I was informed that the right lobe was the receptacle of love, and the left lobe was the receptacle of wisdom; and that by their wonderful interweavings they were, as it were, consorts and partners. It was further shown in the light of heaven, which shone brightly upon it, that the structure of this little brain, as to its arrangement and flux, was in the order and form of heaven, and that its outer structure was in direct opposition to that order and form. After these things had been shown and seen, the angels said that the two interior degrees, which were in the order and form of heaven, were receptacles of love and wisdom from the Lord; and that the outer degree, which was in direct opposition to the order and form of heaven, was a receptacle of infernal love and folly; for the reason that man by hereditary defilement is born into evils of every kind, and these evils remain there in outermosts; and that these defilements are not removed unless the higher degrees are opened, which, as was said, are receptacles of love and wisdom from the Lord. And since love and wisdom are very man, for love and wisdom in their essence are the Lord, and this primitive of man is a receptacle, it follows that in that primitive there is a continuous striving to attain the human form, which indeed it gradually assumes.