6863. Something of peace it was granted me, by the Divine mercy of God the Messiah, to experience, but I solemnly swear that no tongue could ever give expression to it. For it is a combination of all kinds of happiness, together with the highest life, devoid of the life that arises from strong desires, bodily enjoyments, worry, anxiety about things to come. It is being in the bosom of God. [Peace]

[See WE 6877, explaining Num. 7:9.] 6878. This passage is not understood unless one understands something about the human mind. For it is shared by inward and outward elements, or those which are above and those which are beneath. It is like a crossroads, where there is lodging for those elements which come down from above, and those which are drawn up from beneath. 6879. Those which are holy come down from above, or rather, speaking according to the actual fact, are drawn up by God the Messiah, or raised upwards. This I have so clearly