219. IT WAS GRANTED ME TO SHARE, AS IT WERE, HEAVENLY DELIGHT WITH UPRIGHT SOULS IN CAPTIVITY For many years past it has been given me manifestly to feel heavenly delights in various ways, so many and of such kinds that I can in no wise describe them; for they have been such that if I should endeavor to describe them man could not at all believe and understand them. Meanwhile, today, by the mercy of God Messiah, inexpressible heavenly delights have been given me, and it was also granted me to transfer them to the souls in captivity, as if from myself, when yet it was not from me. They said they could themselves feel these delights, and they also received consolation from them. Moreover, they are called "sheep", which also is very comforting to them. In what way they ascend from captivity into a kind of liberty, not only of speaking but also of understanding, perceiving, speaking and seeing, cannot be described, although it is rendered perceptible to me by manifest sense. 1747, Oct. 24, o.s.