There are some types of portrayals that can neither be described in words, nor grasped by a human mental image, for they are matters linked to ideas that are not expressible, nor intelligible to an awake human being, but only to one in a sleeping or ecstatic state. Then they are well understood as if one were awake, but when passing into wakefulness, one does not know in the least how to express them as mental images to which more intelligible matters are linked. Images of this kind were just shown to me in a state verging more toward sleep than wakefulness. One concerned how far dancing at weddings is allowable or not, and like matters, But I could not understand these subjects. They were in a connected series. I do not doubt that something of a heavenly secret is involved, for they are portrayals by spirits while in that state, arising from the clearer portrayals of the angels. 1748, 27 May.