48. [47.] Moravians call only themselves who are of that faith alive, and all others who are not possessed of that faith dead. They also believe that they are saved before all others and that they will enter into the third heaven; but when they come into the first or lowest heaven in the company of angels, they cannot endure the heavenly atmosphere there (which draws its character primarily from goods of charity, and in the same measure from faith), and therefore they flee away. I have perceived and felt their aversion to that atmosphere. Moreover, they are also not tolerated in any heavenly society, because they think to themselves that people other than they are dead, so that they entertain an idea of the angels themselves as being dead. If they come into the second heaven, and even more if they come into the third, where love and charity and the consequent works of these constitute the whole character of the heaven, they are seized with pain like those who lie in the agony of death, and a leaden color comes over their eyes, and they make convulsive motions and are inwardly tormented.