243. 5603. As for the inward person in whom the way to heaven is being opened, all the inward faculties of such, distinctly and one after the other, are unclosed, to the point where they are able to be among the heavenly. This means that as to their earthly mind, they can be among those who are in the inward regions, as to the mind devoted to understanding among those in the more inward regions, and as to the soul, among those in innermost ones. Thus the door is opened again from the earthly paradise into the heavenly paradise.* With the outer person, the case is different. Such grasp only those matters that come in from the outside, that is, through the outer senses, as well as through the earthly mind: so they can see angels, when it so pleases God the Messiah, with the eyes, and can hear them with the ears, but in an utterly upside-down manner; for in the earthly person, the workings of those [higher] faculties descend and are terminated in the world, whereas in the spiritual person, they are raised up, perceptibly, into heaven. But these matters are such as cannot become known easily, without actual experience, and to describe them [thoroughly] would be a work of many sheets.