286. Moreover, it was afterwards said to me from heaven, that those who are there are such as have so slight a residuum left that they remain there for ages, and that there are those who have been there now for twenty ages; that at this day there is none there of those who perished at the time of the flood, but that they have been released from that dreadful infernal vat; and there are those who have been created anew.* * This paragraph is thus entered in the Index (s.v. Infernum): "It was said that certain ones in that infernal vat have been there for ages, and those who were before the flood, having been much vastated, were raised up thence;" and s.v. Diluvium: "Concerning the antediluvians."
286 1/2. Afterwards, when I arose from bed, that devil marveled that I was living upon the earth. These things were seen by me in full wakefulness, and at the same time with vivid thought together with speech, so that this is the pure truth. 1747, Dec. 1.
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