1112. CONCERNING THE DELIGHT OF THE CELESTIAL As the celestial are distinct from the spiritual in other things, so also are they distinct in their sense of joy. The joy of the celestial is a kind of delight which cannot be described, still less can it be understood, except by those to whom it has been given by the Lord to know it through experience; for it fills the whole body with its delight, as has been granted me to feel for a considerable time. It is a manifest sensation of the whole body come from the heart, as it were, and gently diffusing itself through all the fibers, not unlike the greatest delight of married consorts in their joy; it is a diffusion from the least single fibers to the more composite. But it must be carefully distinguished whether this delight comes from inmost things, or whether it only subsists in the externals, concerning which see above [nos. 379, 903-4]. 1748, Mar. 1.