I spoke with spirits about beauty and delight to the effect that beauty is a form in which, and consequently from which there is delight, and that the delights arising from it similarly reduced into a form are beauty, and therefore in them and from them are delights on a deeper level. These pleasures again reduced into a form beget new beauty, from whose variety when experienced there is again new pleasantness pertaining to the innermost level, thus happiness. Thus in beauty, all kinds of happiness are in their order and thus flow one after the other from the Supreme, through the innermost, the very inward, and the inward parts to the outward ones, where are the earthly and bodily types of happiness. 1748, 30 June.