1435. The spirits of our earth are also curious, and want to know many things, but especially earthly and material ones. But they are restored by the Lord to a condition in which they may be aware of, and long for, the interacting inward qualities. Therefore, the spirits of our earth are grosser, slower, and polluted by bodily passions. These must be purged before they are able to grasp inward [truths]-and completely purged, so that they turn away from them and they become as nothing, before they can find delight in inward matters. The spirits of our earth therefore especially make up the provinces of the outward bodily parts. 1748, 16 March.