1057. CONCERNING THE REPRESENTATION OF SPIRITUAL THINGS, AND THEIR DISTINCTION FROM THINGS CELESTIAL There are many spiritual ways of perceiving things. Some are manifest, and others are secret, as it were, but yet become sufficiently plain. Spiritual things are represented in a spiritual manner by what is quite sharp, though vibrating, by fluctions as it were both linear and reciprocal, by things striated, also by things white and shining. When, on the contrary, the celestial rules, they are represented by splendid shining things, and the like.