834. I was once allowed to experience the nature of the heat generated by their polygamous love. I talked to one of them, a spirit who played the part of Mohammed; and this substitute, after talking with me for a while at a distance, sent me an ivory spoon and other evidences that they came from him. At the same time a passage was opened to transmit from various places the heat generated by their polygamous love. From some places it was felt as like the heat in baths after washing; from some places like the heat in the kitchens where meat is stewing; from some like the heat in cook-shops where strong-smelling foods are exposed for sale; from some like that in pharmacists' cellars, where emulsions and the like are being prepared; from some like the heat in brothels and bawdy-houses; and from some like that in shops where hides, leather and shoes are sold. This heat contained something as it were rancid, dry and burning from jealousy. On the other hand, the heat in Christian heavens, when the pleasure of their love is felt as an odour, is fragrant as in gardens and vineyards, and as in rose-beds, in other places as in shops selling perfume, in other places as in wine-presses and wine-cellars. The pleasures of loves are very often experienced in the spiritual world as odours, as I have shown repeatedly at the ends of chapters in the accounts of my experiences.