4777. [4810] CONCERNING THE LOVE OF FRIENDSHIP. In a dream, I saw a virgin in a room along with others, and with men, with whom, from love, there existed the desire of associating, which was perceived by the fact that they associated intimately, and had interior delight. The virgin was unwilling that I should be admitted, although she was among others, because she perceived that there was not such interaction, familiarity and love of friendship in my composition; for persons of this description are annoying to them. Afterwards, however, when I became awake, or was roused from sleep, I spoke with her about familiarity of interaction and the love of friendship. [I said] that she, in outward form, appears as honest, and worthy of approbation, but that, in inward form, she is not of such a description; that, on the contrary, in inward form, she possesses in herself either lasciviousness, or delight in idleness, or contempt of others; thus that there is not anything of friendship, still less of love, in the internal form. She was, in every respect, modest and prudent in speech and action; so that she appeared like an angelic virgin: she was, however, sent among her male and female friends, and separated from others who might hear, and then the interior showed itself. She spoke contemptuously and also abusively of others, so far as the modesty which is in friendship was loosened; and she communicated with societies of adultery and whoredom. She was shown what sort of glory and splendor was theirs who entertain friendship for what is good, with whomsoever it may exist; and that, if she should come thither, she could not be tolerated, because she would make herself annoying to them.