874. He burned intensely with his inmost desire, and came to me again, saying that he desired heaven most intensely and was unwilling to desist. When this was heard, he was received into the company of good spirits of this earth, but they professed that he could by no means be in their company. He was called by the spirits of his own earth, "chimney sweep",* implying that in the life of the body he had swept chimneys; he was thus of a black color, although he said that the color was brown. * The MS. has skorstensfejare, a Swedish word meaning a chimney sweep.