2297. What is more, while the young children are being perfected even the sky around them accords with the state of their perfection. As regards the skies in the next life that occur in countless variety and with indescribable beauty, see what has been mentioned from experience in Volume One, in 1621. In particular skies manifest themselves to them which seem to contain the shapes of young children at play, but too small to be seen individually and perceptible solely in the inner recesses of the mind. From these shapes they gain the heavenly idea that every single thing around them is alive and shares in the Lord's life, which idea gives them a feeling of happiness in their inmost being.