SD 4026 - angelic singing; SD 4036 - human weeping

SD 4026
During the whole night I was occupied in dreaming
of various objects of a material and corporeal kind,
as walkings, dangers, and the like,
in a confused and rambling way,
and upon awaking from time to time,
I heard choirs of angels descending one after another,
and which I heard more clearly than on various other occasions.
I perceived that there were certain evil spirits who infested me,
and that the angelic choirs were sent by the Lord,
for the purpose of warding off the assaults of such spirits.
But what they said I could not understand,
nor did I perceive anything but the sound peculiar to such choirs.

SD 4036
As they were ignorant of what conscience is,
they asked of me respecting its nature.
It was given to reply, that it was all that internal sensation
which is experienced when a person acts contrary to goodness and truth.
. . . moreover, that it is a perception given by the Lord,
by virtue of which one is affected with pain
that he has done aught that is contrary to goodness and truth,
and with a self-sorrow, so that he, as it were, sheds tears,
as the principle is one of the most interior nature;
for weeping ensues when anything is done contrary to good.
(November 22, 1748)