1126. The one thing they then think about is eternity, as they repeatedly told me. I wanted to know from them how their thought could be fixed upon eternity alone unless it was at the same time upon life, namely, upon eternal life. But they said that they then meditated upon nothing else than eternity, and that it involved the same idea as eternal life. They tried to induce their state, or the state of their society, upon my face and also upon my mind; but because I was more filled with the things of life than they, they said that they were unable to do so, at which they were surprised. Afterwards, those things which are of life what it is and of what quality were successively inserted into the general notion. Thus they are like infants, who first receive general notions, next less general, and then more particular notions. In this manner a life of joy is insinuated. 1748, Mar. 3.