454. WHAT THOSE AFRICANS, WHO WANT TO BE TREATED HARSHLY AFTER THE DEATH OF THE BODY, FURTHER RELATE They are eager and willing to instruct how things are with themselves. From the direction of the words by them, I can perceive that they want to be without anything erroneous, and that they desire things interior, for they weigh their words. They say that when they are being badly treated, they are then black, and afterwards they put off the blackness, and put on a whiteness of soul, and so enter heaven. They now wonder that they have had that painful sensation, which they afterwards attributed to phantasies, for they now say that they have no such sensation, but only something pleasant and paradisal. 1748, Jan. 7.