300. THAT NO MORTAL WHATEVER CAN ASCEND FROM THE GRAVE EXCEPT GOD MESSIAH It is an irrefutable truth, and one most fully testified by experience, that no man can be raised up out of his grave, still less raised from the lower places of the earth into the heavens, namely, into the interior, the more interior, and the inmost heaven, except by God Messiah. It has also been granted me to learn this by manifest experience; and, in order that I might know this, it was granted me to perceive it by a certain kind of subtracting or withdrawing, which I can scarcely describe. Such is it in the universal heaven; for God Messiah, Who has all power in the heavens and on earth, burns most intensely and inmostly with love and mercy for the salvation of the whole human race: the power of His love and of His mercy is of such a nature because He is omnipotent. 1747, Dec. 5.