A certain spirit had an almost burning desire to possess something, yet he did not pass into my consciousness as spirits normally do, but appeared to my inner sight as a somewhat inflamed aura, which was the field of desire in which he was being held. At the time, he did not appear to me otherwise than as something very tiny, floating, so to speak, in that field. He was encompassed by the field of desire, and in that condition he was lamenting and saying it was extremely painful not to obtain what he wanted. When I thought he was about to perish, a different, finer aura came in from the Lord, which was an aura of uses. This lessened his pain, and he declared that he had received comfort in the degree that rays from that field of uses were entering. In this way he was taught that he should not long for anything except for a use, and that it is use that ought to arouse one's feeling. * A paragraph 2023 does not appear in the original.

[2025.]* Moreover, the desires of some to possess things without regard to use, which they proceed to defend by fabricating uses, have also been communicated to me. This is common with women, and I was speaking with some about the matter. 1748, 20 May. * This number does not appear in the original text, but in the index under Cupiditas, Sphaera and usus, 2024 and 2025 are referred to.