301. THAT IN THE MORE INTERIOR HEAVEN THE DELIGHT AND HAPPINESS ARE INEFFABLE By the mercy of God Messiah I was raised up into the more interior heaven, as I before said [n. 293, 299], and spoke with the angels. Then solely by the mercy of God Messiah, it was granted me to be in their company for a little while, which was a miracle due to the arrangement of the angels around me. Hence I was taught concerning the things said above, and could thus perceive, although very obscurely, what is the quality [of angelic happiness], and that without heavenly harmony and the agreement of dispositions, and without the state acquired by vastation, it could never be granted to anyone to be among the angels. The delights from a most subdue or sublime imagination, imperceptible to man, are indeed such that it is altogether a heavenly paradise, with absolute and inexpressible delight, with indefinite variety; for the representations are so living that they immeasurably surpass those which man can imagine to himself, or even think of; this is from mutual love and the agreement of all, that no one wants to be his own, but each individual earnestly desires from inmost affection, to be for all. But words are lacking to express these things. 1747, Dec. 5.