1087. CONCERNING RAINBOW OR RAINBOW-LIKE DECORATIONS There were also represented decorations which are, as it were, celestial. They are multi-colored, not as of a rainbow, but yet they can be called rainbow-like, for they are heavenly bows with colors variously joined together, which colors are conjoined and follow one another in a heavenly manner. Hence are the decorations which appear before those who are in the heaven of upright spirits, and they are the variegations of their "animi" or natural minds thus represented before those who are such, for which reason the variety of such representations or decorations are as many as there are "animi". These decorations are distinct from those of the spiritual, concerning which elsewhere [n. 711]; for the celestial bows thus formed are extended upwards, but the spiritual appear on the walls. 1748, Feb. 29.