302. CONCERNING THE LIFE AFTER DEATH OF THOSE WHO ARE CONTINUALLY ENGAGED WITH STUDIES, AND HENCE SUPPOSE THAT THEY ARE WISE I was led today into a habitation in which indeed I had been before, but I did not then know whose habitation it was. There was, as it were, a wide open space, where there were many chariots with armories. There were very many persons where the chariots and horses were, and they seemed to themselves to be walking about and to be carried hither and thither in the chariots: and when I inquired who they were, one of them drawing near asked about those who in their lifetime had been learned, and which of them had acquired a greater reputation than the others. Then I mentioned two or three whom I knew; but I was instructed by the angels who were with me, that those pass their life there, who devote themselves a great deal to studies, but yet are of sound reason, though they do not extend the philosophy of their mind to heavenly things. 1747, Dec. 5.