[THE "BATH FRAGMENT"] ....angels also are distinguished into heavens in accordance with the varieties of intellectual faith, and so are those who rule the interior human thoughts, for man has around him a certain interior, and more interior, and even inmost heaven. It was permitted [me] by the Divine Mercy of God Messiah for a little while to share my thoughts in a living manner with those who dwell in the intellectual heaven, or to have communication with them through thoughts, and to speak with them by other means. Indeed it was given me to purify my thoughts to such a degree that those who were in the heaven of intellectual faith were brought into immediate contact.* Then it was observed that they were those who are meant in the more interior sense by Gad; for although they know, and so are able to believe, that God Messiah by the Holy Spirit alone rules them, and that they only had power as long as they were being aroused directly, yet they were upset; and at first they wanted to excite some disturbances, but after some contention with me they became quiet. Moreover, today also by the Divine mercy of God Messiah it was permitted [me] to experience in a living manner that spirits, although evil, that is to say being in an inverted order, can also give "the delights of a king" [Gen. xlix 20]. These, so long as they are in that state, are meant by Asher in the exterior sense, for they were in such a state that they might make enjoyments suitably, by rendering obedience to the interior heaven or interior man. These are matters that are arcana, and more could have been said about them. 1747, the 8th day of February, on which day it was permitted [me] to note something in the margin concerning the blessings of the sons of Jacob, Genesis chap. xlix.** * Crossed out "who, being aroused, spoke with me today, by means of other spirits". ** The note is: "Concerning Gad and Asher, see the experience in Tome III (of The Word Explained (Cod. 61)) at the end."