1122. I have learned in addition that members of the Most Ancient Church experienced most delightful dreams, as well as visions, and that what these meant was instilled at the same time. This was the source of their representations involving paradise gardens and much else. To them therefore earthly and worldly objects of the external senses were as nothing. They did not perceive any delight in those objects, only in the things which they meant and represented. Consequently when they looked at earthly objects they thought not at all of the objects, but only of the things they meant and represented, which to them were most delightful, for they were such things as exist in heaven, from which they behold the Lord Himself.