A certain spirit was with me not long after departing the body, as I was able to conclude from the fact that he did not yet know he was in the other life. For no one can find this out unless given occasion to reflect on the matter, as everyone may surely realize from many considerations. He seemed to me to have been devoted during his bodily life to studious pursuits, but nothing further became known to me, although I spoke with him a while. But then suddenly, he was lifted up high above me, leading me to suppose that he might be of the kind who had aspired in life to higher things. Then while he was on high, when speaking as a spirit, suddenly he was swept up and was no longer able to speak with the spirits, who were wondering where he had gone-for he had come into a society of heavenly spirits, and consequently, out of the sight of worldly spirits. So I would guess that he was lifted up on high for the reason that he had conceived of heaven as being in the highest regions, not in the low-lying ones near to the earth; and that being led by that opinion, he seemed to be raised up. For every opinion follows and drives a person. From the society of heavenly spirits, he spoke with me, and he said that he sees things high and sublime, beyond the power of the human mind ever to conceive of, and harligheter.* 1748, 23 May. * Swedish for "glorious things."