About that Soul, you may see what was said earlier [2030-9]. He was now among heavenly spirits, and was able without delay to be together in the current of their conversation, nor did I discern any element of hesitance due to falsity clinging to his ideas, nor from self-love opposing. For it is falsities, and the loves of self and of the world that prevent souls from being in companies of heavenly spirits, into whose circles no one can be admitted, except in certain states, until falsities and passions have been purged and, so to speak, rubbed off [see 1995]. These can be compared to sharp corners that impede the spiral rolling movement in the conversation of many who are of one mind. 1748, 22 May.