I have often heard discussions between angels and new spirits, and on one occasion about the consummation of the age and the destruction of the world. Because these new spirits still knew nothing about heaven and hell, or about man's life after death, or about any but the literal sense of the Word, they made replies that were devoid of reason and full of contradictions, saying that by the consummation of the age they understood the destruction of the world; by the Lord's coming then, His appearance with angels in a cloud; by the Last Judgment, sentences passed of salvation or damnation on all the dead after their resurrection from their graves. On hearing this the angels asked two or three times with a smile whether they had made these assertions from faith of the heart, which is believed to be truth, or from historical faith, which in itself is tradition received from others, or from indulging the imagination. To this the newcomers retorted indignantly, 'What do you mean, by indulging the imagination or by mere tradition! Are not truths revealed in the Word, must they not be from faith of the heart?' To this the angels mildly answered, 'Your believing this does no harm, but you will later on be taught that it is not so.'