Today I was shown, as once before [329], that the objects of the eyesight in the streets were reduced into a cohering series of matters by the Lord in front of good spirits and angels. The objects were extremely diverse, and very many, and I was told that they saw nothing of them, and yet there rose up to them therefrom some coherent meaning, and in fact, by the route that symbolic things of the world follow to arrive at spiritual matters. When I wondered at this, I was told that no object can exist that is not able to contain something that can be applied by the Lord to a matter at hand. And this is done by the removal of those properties in the object, or in many objects, that portray something else. Thus by nearer or farther routes it is the doing of the Lord Alone to connect the subjects. For example, goodness can be portrayed by anything fat, anything sweet, anything pleasant in relation to the objects, partially, specifically, and generally. In fact, even from things that are sad, and evil, pleasant and good elements can be extracted.