408. CONCERNING THOSE WHO HAD BEEN INSTRUCTED AND WERE UNWILLING TO ACKNOWLEDGE GOD MESSIAH; THEY HAVE BEEN THROWN DOWN AND CAST OUT OF HEAVEN For several days in the heaven of spirits there have been those who were exciting disturbances and persuading others that God Messiah was not the Mediator, besides other things which they interjected from phantasy, and they have seduced many. For this reason there arose a rebellion, as it were, certain spirits associating themselves with them. This rebellion lasted for some days, during which time God Messiah as He had been before in spiritual vision disappeared, as it were, from me, and thus I have been left to the phantasy of those spirits, who acknowledged only Jehovah, the Father of God Messiah, thus without a mediator, which it was granted me to perceive in spiritual vision. I wondered what would happen as a result. Presently I heard, and by spiritual vision sensed, that the rebels were seized with pain, and that that crowd was cast out and was being miserably tortured, as I now hear from them. There are lamentations upon lamentations. There are almost myriads, as they say, praying that no one should suffer himself to be seduced any more, unless he wants to undergo unspeakable torments. From this and a similar band it is understood what God Messiah says of the man who had also insinuated himself into the feast, not being clothed with a wedding garment, and who was cast out. [Matt. xxii 11.] 1747, Dec. 28. They have been cast into the lake.