A spirit like the one spoken of previously [1962] addressed me at the left side, beneath the arm, saying that he longed for heaven more than anything-a spirit capable of quite fine understanding. He was saying that he often longed for heaven, but that they did not want to let him in, begging me to tell him, if I knew, how he might come into heaven. I was prompted to tell him that he would not be able to come into heaven before he had lost that desire to come into heaven. That longing would, if he were in the highest happiness, prevent him from feeling it; so that he would not be able to come into heaven before he had gotten rid of that desire. This was all the more the case because he did not know what heaven is, and upon being asked he said that it was unutterably great joy and gladness. Besides this, that spirit, like people on earth, did not know anything about heaven except the most general fact, that it is joy. But as to what that joy consists of, and thus what it is like, he was entirely ignorant. 1748, 22 May.