397. A VISION BY DAY CONCERNING THOSE WHO ARE DEVOTED TO THE PLEASURES OF THE TABLE, AND WHO THUS INDULGE THE FLESH At mid-day, about dinner time, an angel who was with me spoke to me saying that I was not to indulge the belly too much at the table. While he was with me there then clearly appeared to me, as it were, a vapor exuding from the pores of my body like something watery, in the highest degree visible, which slipped down to the ground where a carpet was seen upon which the collected vapor was turned into various little worms, which being gathered together under the table, were burnt up in a moment, with a loud noise or sound: the fiery light therein was seen by me and the sound heard. I suppose that in this way all the little worms which can be generated by an immoderate appetite were cast out of my body, and thus were consumed, and that I was then cleansed from them. Hence it can be concluded what sumptuous fare and such like things carry in their bosom. 1745, April.* * This experience, though occurring in 1745, was here recorded in 1747. There is an earlier description of apparently the same occurrence in WE 3557, written about April 1746 in connection with the plague of frogs in Egypt. The two descriptions are listed together in the Index, s.v. Edere and Vermis. There is another account in Apoc. 5, n. 15, Vol. I, p. 35.