307. CONCERNING THOSE WHO WERE RAISED UP INTO THE MORE INTERIOR HEAVEN Today also two were carried up into a certain court of the interior heaven, and thence spoke with me; and they said in a loud voice that the eye never sees, nor can the mind perceive such things. Indeed, to a small extent I perceived the actual happiness in myself.* Even in the more interior heaven I had felt a certain delight breathing forth from him who had been translated thither, who exclaimed and said that he could not sustain the joy if he were not sent down; but having been surrounded by the angels of God Messiah, he was able to tarry there. 1747, Dec. 5. One of these who had been conducted to certain habitations of the more interior heaven, crying out, said that he perceived continued varieties of delights with quite an interior perception of the joy. There was also a certain one taken up with them as an angelic attendant, but yet he said that no such thing was seen by him; so that the apparent height effects nothing, but only the interior and more interior things of heaven. But the two spoken of above were only at the beginning of the more interior heaven, because they had not been dead very long, so that they were not as yet prepared to enter more interiorly. They again cried out, saying, that the varieties of delights were so innumerable that no tongue could ever utter them; they indeed wanted to describe that most wonderful harmony, but could not. They seemed to themselves to be snatched up into the third heaven, but it was only the court of the more interior heaven, as I am now told. 1747, Dec. 5. * Crossed out: "So that I can the more certainly confirm it."