147. [A CONVERSATION WITH JEWS CONCERNING ETERNAL LIFE] A discourse with some Jews concerning eternal life, that they expect a life full of joy, first as in sleep, and then the utmost happiness above all others. When asked whether they wanted to live with their companions, or to be by themselves, they said, in a great society with its leaders. Asked whether they wished to live in society with others who are in accord with their interiors, they said they did not know what the internal man is. But when it was said that in the other life they lived with their companions according to their interiors, and that since each one of them was interiorly of a character such as they knew, and that their leaders, as they also knew, were of such a character, they would then live in disharmony, hatred, and unhappiness, they finally confessed that they were awaiting a Messiah who would unite them. (Dominus, Interiora, Fudaei, Societas.)* * This is evidently the passage referred to in WE 2227, written at the end of February or the beginning of March 1746: "Here, if it is pleasing to God Messiah, may be inserted a conversation I had with Jews, with whom I spoke yesterday, and which is described on a separate sheet of paper."