272. CONCERNING SOMEONE WHO WAS LET DOWN INTO THE LOWER PLACE, WHO WAS AT LENGTH RAISED UP A certain [spirit] who had been let down into the place of lower things was at length raised up; but on the way he labored very hard and endeavored with the utmost assiduity and labor to ascend, but for a long time in vain. From this I could conclude that ascent and elevation are by God Messiah, Who alone releases the miserable from the pit, elevates them, and carries them into the heavens. I spoke with that spirit when he was laboring, and after it had been granted him to emerge from the place of lower things, so that the truth was testified by living experience. 1747, Nov. 27 or 28.