One comes across very many things in the Word of God the Messiah, both in the Old and the New Testament, which cannot but appear as unintelligible. But this is because the human race living today has completely changed from the race that lived in the ancient Church, and afterwards in the earliest [Christian] Church. If they had been living today, they would have been able to know very well [what those things meant] from experience and by means of revelation [given] to them. It can also be learned better by observing the condition of the spirits and human souls now filling up the lowest realm of the heavens. This is the reason why I am being permitted to bring in experiences from them, too, about things almost erased from human memory today, and in this way to make up for the ignorance. These words [were written] in the presence of spirits, who became indignant that their experience was being taken, 1747, the 15th of September (old calendar), such as what is meant by being drunk, by blushing, and the like.