117. [118.] I was subsequently shown in a hazy vision how the doctrine of heaven was spreading in Africa, namely, toward the interior parts even to the center, and then continuing toward those who live on the coasts of the Mediterranean Sea, but not reaching the coast, and then after a time turning around toward Egypt. Angels rejoiced on that account, seeing that the Lord's advent was now at hand once again, and that a new church was now being established with which they could be affiliated. That doctrine does not reach all the way to Africans living along the coast, since Christians come there who introduce obstacles to its reception, and who have a human concept of the Lord and not a Divine one. Africans are more receptive of the doctrine of heaven than others on this earth, because they willingly accept the doctrine concerning the Lord. They have as though instinctively in them the idea that God must altogether appear as a person. They have a capacity to accept truths of faith, and especially the goods it teaches, because they are of a celestial disposition. They were told that the Lord had foretold His advent, and the establishment of a new church to follow the old one, and that His appearance is made through angels who teach.