Arcana Coelestia (Elliott) n. 4412

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4412. There was a certain person whom I had known during his lifetime, though not so far as his disposition and interior affections were concerned. He spoke to me several times in the next life, but for a short while from a distance. Ordinarily he revealed himself by means of lovely representatives, for he was able to produce the kinds of things that gave pleasure, such as colours of every kind and beautiful coloured forms; to bring on the scene young children beautifully adorned like angels, and very many other representatives similar to these which were lovely and delightful. He did it by means of a mild and gentle influx into the tunic of the left eye. By means of such representatives he entered into the affections of others, his end in view being to bring pleasure and delight into their life. I was told by the angels that this is the character of those who belong to the tunics of the eye and that they communicate with the paradise-like heavens where truths and goods are represented in objects formed from spiritual substance, as stated above in 4411.


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