2331. Then the conversation went on to the effect that now he has come into a kingdom that will last to eternity, and he should know what the laws of that kingdom are in order to be able to live happily to eternity. Without a deeper knowledge of the laws, no one can enter into this eternal Kingdom. Its laws are the laws of faith, consequently truths, for which people have no concern during life in the body, when yet they are laws that are eternal, and necessary to them in the Kingdom that will last to eternity. So a person should apply the mind to them, and not so much to things in the world except only to serve the needs of the body for the soul's sake, and the needs of society as a whole for the sake of their souls. This should be one's pursuit, for this is eternal, but not the physical and worldly things which when separated from things of the eternal kingdom, lead away from it and lead one to hell. Such more or less was the conversation with spirits, and they are surprised that people have so little if any concern for matters that concern their souls, when yet it is on account of their souls, which live to eternity, that they are in the world. 1748, 16 June.