270. 5857. The above was shown to me so clearly in a dream in this night between the 27th and 28th of July, 1746 (old calendar) that nothing could be clearer. The spirits and angels who had been present, with whom I spoke about the dream after awakening, confirmed this same point.* But to tell the dream, together with all its circumstances, would be a large task, and besides, they cannot be appreciated so much by a person on earth as by the angels of God the Messiah. * In the original this sentence is emphasized by the word "Obs." written twice in the margin.