1311. But hereditary evils are diverse. In infants and children they are such as to appear no otherwise than that they can be tempered by goods, like black, green and blue colors with light, so that there comes into existence therefrom a kind of rainbow, as it were. It is otherwise if evils are again added by actualities. In an infant born from such parents the love of self is, as it were, the black, the love of the world, as it were, the yellow, and the love of earthly things, as it were, the green. These colors induce beautiful appearances by being tempered, like infants in heaven. 1748, Mar. 12. Those colors appeared to me obscurely and as if they were something continuous so that they could be tempered. They were like a kind of aquaeous or misty atmosphere.