230. THE STATE OF MERETRICIOUS SOULS In the night between Oct. 30 and 31, female spirits were admitted to me, that is, I was admitted into spheres built up from those women who had been unconcerned about any faith, and had led a dissolute and meretricious life in the world. They consisted, as I could perceive, of such as wander about, and lead none other than a life of harlotry, caring nothing at all for legitimate marriages, thus caring little or nothing what the internal man is, and what faith is: whence it follows as a consequence that there is little that could affect their nature. Such spheres, as I might call them, or such societies, are divided into genera and species. It was granted me to speak with some of them, that I might know what kind of life they live after death. Their life was, as it were, insane, without anything of reason, still less of understanding. I wondered also whether there would be insane women in the other life; but it was said that the souls of such were insane, knowing nothing of beauty, nor of modesty. Such also pervert everything pertaining to true conjugial love, especially by bending it to licentiousness. The number of such is very great. These women lead an unhappy life, for they no longer know what delight is, such as it is in the other life. 1747, in the night between Oct. 30 and 31, o.s.