756. The difference is like that between artificial fruits, artificial flowers and leaves, artificial human forms made of wax within which is clay, and between genuine fruits, flowers, and human faces in which there is life. In the former case there is merely an outermost which counterfeits and misleads, and indeed with such artifice that sometimes the uninformed and the simple are easily deceived. Whereas in the case of the latter, there is life, and the more interiorly and inmostly [it is regarded], the more spiritual and celestial is the life [seen to be]. These remain and are perfected, and become the more beautiful and happy the more interior they are; but as the former things proceed towards the interiors, their external beauty and loveliness falls away and decays, and then nothing but what is filthy and infernal comes forth. 1748, Feb. 12. Such is the life of pleasures in the body.