243. CONCERNING A SEA. CONCERNING THE RAGING SEA AT THE TIME OF THE LAST JUDGMENT This night I seemed to be crossing a stormy sea in a boat, and soon afterwards being half awake, I saw that sea so black, and with waves so high, that it would strike terror into anyone. The raging of the sea seemed also to increase. At first the waves were borne from the left towards the right, and then towards the shore where I was. There were also some people on an island or projecting rock, who had been saved. Having become more fully awake, I perceived for some time a manifest commotion, with the feeling as at other times, that I was surrounded by spirits who were rising up, and who, as I heard, were those bound coming out of the pit, and by the mercy of God Messiah, were being released and set free in this place. There was a great multitude of them, as I could conclude from the noise and from other perceptible signs; it was also said that the raging seas at the last day or time signify these and similar things.