1332. It was a remarkable thing that a certain spirit was in a middle state, as if alternating for short periods between each state, that is, between being in heaven as an angel, and outside heaven as a spirit. When he was in heaven he said that he did not want to be a spirit, and when a spirit that he did not want to be in heaven, the reason being that in the one state the other was immediately forgotten. From this it can also be known what is the state of certain ones in heaven, namely, that at times corporeal things combat against heavenly things, and thus they love neither the one nor the other. And since anxiety and hence a kind of fermentation, as it were, arises from this state, or from such an equilibration between heavenly and corporeal things, the spirit is remitted into the state of his former life until he is affected with disgust by it, after which he is again admitted into heaven. He has already been gifted by the Lord with the capability of being among the heavenly ones, as long as corporeal things do not prevail. For the capabilities are so balanced that as long as the heavenly capability prevails, the spirit is gifted by the Lord with heaven. It is this which is given by the Lord and super-added to his former life which is not taken away. 1748, Mar. 13.