into spiritual delight, which is that of the knowledges of good and truth. They dwell in gardens, where appear beds of flowers and grass-plats beautifully arranged, and rows of trees round about, together with porticoes and walks. The trees and flowers are varied every day. The view of the whole in general presents delights to their minds, and the varieties in particular continually renew them. And because these objects correspond to things divine, and those who behold them are in the science of correspondences, they are perpetually replenished with new knowledges whereby their spiritual rational faculty is perfected. They are sensible of these delights, because gardens, beds of flowers, grass-plats, and trees, correspond to sciences and knowledges, and to intelligence thence derived.
They who have ascribed all things to the Divine, and have regarded nature respectively as dead, only subservient to things spiritual, and have confirmed themselves in this belief, dwell in heavenly light, which renders all things that appear before their eyes transparent; and in that transparency they behold innumerable variegations of light, which their internal sight imbibes as it were immediately. Thence they perceive interior delights. The objects which appear in their houses are as if made of diamouds, resplendent with similar variegations of light. I have been told that the walls of their houses are like crystal, thus also transparent; and in them appear
