The greater part, and almost all, do not know what the happiness of the blessed after death is, because it does not come to their perception. What inward and very inward blessedness and happiness is, is a matter entirely cloaked in ignorance. Only from bodily, sensual and worldly gladness and joy do they have any sense of it, so that what they do not know, they think to be nothing. Yet bodily and worldly joys are nothing, filthy, and productive of rottenness.