3378. It should be mentioned that before those antediluvian spirits came to me, first I saw a beautiful little child dressed in a shining garment, who symbolized, as is now being imparted to me, the most ancient Church. Next in a kind of open doorway, I saw a boy in a green garment, and I do not know what it symbolizes-perhaps such as belonged to the same period, or that of the most ancient Church. Presently two handmaids in white as to the head were seen, who symbolized those people's feelings, while the boy in green symbolized their knowledge and understanding. Therefore, at that time, the time of the most ancient Church, to some extent their rational ideas, that is their faith of knowledge was like green, or like the boy, while their feelings were like the handmaids', shining as to the head-thus just the reverse of the case with us. With us the knowledge is good, but the feelings evil.