as it were moving forms representative of heavenly things, also with perpetual variety. And these phenomena exist, because such transparency corresponds to an understanding enlightened by the Lord, and free from the shades which originate in faith merely natural, and in the love of natural things.
Such are the things, with numberless others, concerning which it has been said by those who have been in heaven, that they have beheld things which eye hath not seen, and,—from a perception of divine things thence communicated,—that they have heard things which the ear never heard.
They who have not acted clandestinely, but have been willing that all their thoughts should be known abroad, so far as was consistent with the interests and customs of civil life,—because they have thought nothing but what was sincere and just from the Divine,—appear in heaven with radiant faces, wherein every affection aud thought are imaged, while their speech aud actions are the very forms of their affections. Hence they are loved more than others. When they speak, their faces become a little obscure; but when they have done speaking, the same things which they have spoken appear simultaneously in their faces, clearly manifest to the sight. All the objects which exist around them also—because they correspond with the interiors—assume such an appearance, that what they represent and signify is clearly perceived by others. When the spirits who have taken delight in acting clandestinely, see these
