248. WHEN THE ULTIMATE HEAVEN IS NOT DIRECTED BY ANGELS, THE EVIL SPIRITS ARE GREATLY ENRAGED, AND ARE MOST MALICIOUS Today I also discovered that in the ultimate heaven, and beneath it, where evil spirits are not directed by God Messiah by means of angels, they are so malicious and burn with such rage that it cannot be adequately described; wherefore there is always a direction by means of angels, and thus a tempering according to the state of man, or according to his direction to the ultimate end. 1747, Nov. 19, o.s.* * This paragraph fills the bottom part of the same page as that on which the preceding paragraph was written. The irregularity of the dates may be accounted for by Swedenborg having made use of this space a few days later for inserting this one. As n. 254, which is also dated "Nov. 19", was written at the bottom of the following leaf of the MS. it is possible that n. 248 was written after n. 254.