[THE "BATH FRAGMENT":]* ....Also distinguished into heavens, according to their different kinds of mental belief, are the angels who govern inward human thoughts: for people have around them an inward, and a very inward, heaven - even an innermost one. I also was enabled by the mercy of God the Messiah actually to share my thoughts for a while with those who were in the heaven of understanding - or rather, to have contact with them through my thoughts and, by intermediaries, to speak with them. I was even allowed to purify my thoughts to the point where I directly touched those who were in the heaven of belief based on understanding. Then I saw that it was they who are meant by "Gad" in a more inward sense. For even though they know, and are therefore able to believe, that God the Messiah Alone rules them through the Holy Spirit, and that they only had power when they were directly enlivened - still they were upset and wanted at first to cause a commotion, but after some contention with me, they quieted down. Moreover, I was also allowed today, by the Divine mercy of God the Messiah, actually to experience the fact that spirits, even if they are evil, that is, in upside-down order, are also able to give "the delights of a King" [Gen. 49:20]. These, when they are in that state, are meant in an outward sense by "Asher," for they were able to produce harmonious pleasures, performing services to the inward heaven, or inward person. These are the matters that are hidden here, and more could be said about them: 1747, the 8th day of February, on which day I was allowed to note something in the margin about the blessings of the sons of Jacob, chapter 49 of Genesis.** * See Experiences Spirituales, Vol I, p. xxxiii. ** See Experientiae Spirituales, Vol VI, appendix E. In the upper left hand corner of page 62 of Swedenborg's Schmidius Bible is the annotation, "About Gad and Asher, see Experiences, Tome III at the end." In the lower right hand corner are his annotations on Gen. 49:19-20, which read:

"Vers. 19.) Gad is the righteousness of the more inward person, thus of faith through understanding, in that we think we are our own, not believing we are controlled by God the Messiah in the least details, as is usual with everyone lacking Divine experience. They are the fruits of faith by understanding, thus "he whom a troop tramps upon." He "tramps upon the heel" when it is Jacob, in almost the same sense as [the prophecy] that nature tramps upon the heel, Gen. [3:15?].