3079. Varieties of facial appearances arise from being looked at by angels, such as dreadful, or cloudy, or fiery, as well as beautiful ones, with other diversities
That so many diversities exist especially in the world of spirits, as to their looks, like fires, lights, and very many other characteristics, originates from nothing else than the communication of the deeper knowledges of faith, hence of the varying field of faith, like the lights from the Sun, which are numerous both as to degrees of intensity and as to many other differentiations. Therefore, when such a light falls into the world of spirits, all there who are not of the faith, but of a false faith, look to those who see them like wood-choppers and grass-cutters. Hence the aura of faith has in it [the deeper knowledge] that the Lord Alone is Righteousness and He Alone merits. So those who place merit in themselves appear in this way, and as they appear, so do they seem to behave.