2822. were bright sky blue. Their beauty can neither be described nor pictured, for it is the nature of the things of heaven when portrayed, that they cannot be described or depicted, and I was told that the angels receive gifts of this kind when they please the Lord. I realized that those gifts are sent down from the very inward heaven to the angels of the inward heaven and that such are the symbolic portrayals in heaven that convey understanding, for there is nothing at all in that kind of heavenly bundle that does not mean something. So they grasp simultaneously, as when something is pictured before the eyes, what [all the parts] symbolize, thus innumerable things at one glance that can never be expressed in words. 1748, 14 Aug.