516. As regards the other kind of torment, namely, the veil, man cannot be sent beneath this, for he knows that he is in the body and that thus he cannot be hidden away without the eye being blinded; nor can he be so acted upon as to burst forth from it, because he knows that he is in the body. But instead of that punishment there is this: that when he wants to recall to memory, or to write down, truths that have been clear and considered, the ideas in general and also in particular are then taken away, so that he cannot even recall to mind anything whatever. It is granted him, however, to see as when a light is kindled but is [at once] hidden or extinguished; and meanwhile the desire that he wants to know or to write is inflamed, and at the same time there is indignation, with the intention to persevere, or even from conscience not to give up. These things correspond to the veils of spirits, which are said to be of various genera and species among spirits. 1748, Jan. 23.