1316. CONCERNING A TUMULT IN THE HEAVEN OF SPIRITS FROM A CONFLICT OF OPINIONS CONCERNING TRUTHS A similar kind of tumult has sometimes arisen on former occasions, and I then knew no otherwise than that it was the confusion of all things, and thus the Last Judgment, for there was a certain idea of the Last Judgment, as it were. It appears like a chaos, for there is heard a confused murmur, or the murmuring noise of very many spirits who know no differently than that all things would then be confounded together, for the societies are dissolved, and everyone is ruled by his own opinion and has thought for himself, thus not in consociation or community from one spirit, as it were, but from many. And because these opinions vary, such a tumult or muttering noise is heard from their tacit thoughts and at the same time from their murmuring speech. It is an image as if of the Last Judgment. The spirits also imagined this, for they could not but be ignorant of the fact that they would thus no longer be connected, be in harmony, and be at rest. I did not know before what such a tumult was and with the spirits imagined that all things would then be confounded, for it is like a confusion of tongues or a chaos of opinions concerning certain truths which are the special objects of their thoughts. Thus a spiritual chaos seems to exist.