210. CONCERNING THE GENERAL SPHERES ARISING FROM THOSE THINGS WHICH ARE OF THE KINGDOM OF GOD MESSIAH Nothing can be said to be more wonderful and incredible than that there are general spheres, as it were, of the things which are of the Kingdom of God Messiah, corresponding to the things in human minds, both the more interior and the interior which are in the Kingdom of God Messiah. These spheres cannot be described, but an idea of them can be presented by some comparison. The spheres in general are celestial, also spiritual, higher and lower. The lowest is destroyed so long as evil spirits are permitted to dwell therein this sphere, as yet, ascend even to the rational sphere, and disturbs it. Today, by the mercy of God Messiah, I was present in the rational sphere in such a way that any rational might be in agreement with that sphere, and so it was not disturbed, as it otherwise would have been. The spirits who were in that sphere then suffered anguish, and said they could not live in it; it was as if a bird were in a sphere where there was no air, but ether, or as a fish in the air, and they wanted to flee away. From this I could know that when the Kingdom of God Messiah comes, evil spirits are then of necessity expelled, for they are, as it were, unable to breathe in that sphere as was said. 1747, Oct. 20, o.s. When I was praying, especially when praying the Lord's Prayer, I have been received into that sphere, and then it was given me to perceive clearly the more interior things of the prayer.