Spiritual Experiences (Odhner) n. 1087

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1087. About decorations resembling the rainbow

Decorations, seemingly heavenly, were also portrayed, in many colors. They were not just as those of the rainbow, yet they can be called rainbow-like. For they are heavenly arches, with color combinations. The colors blend and follow one into another, as those in the sky. This is the origin of the decorations that appear before those who are in the heaven of upright spirits, being the variegations of their moods, or of their lower minds, so portrayed before those who are upright. So the varieties of such decorative displays are as numerous as are their moods-and are distinct from the decorations of the spiritual, spoken of elsewhere [see 711]. For these arches, fashioned in this way, are in the sky, stretching out overhead, while the spiritual ones appear on the walls. 1748, 29 February.


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