710. Some, for instance, were clothed in most beautiful white and shining robes, in which youths and children especially delight. Their joy reached to me, so that I perceived their gladness, for thus they know they are angels, besides being in most beautiful shining-white raiment.
710 1/2. Some were delighted even to the inmost by the manifold pleasures such as those of paradise which indefinitely surpass all human conception; for there is nothing that is not in its spring-time, in its flower, and in its fruit, with the result that all things are so smiling that it is evident thence that in each leaf there is a more interior heavenly gladness from inmost. For I aver that such things sprout forth out of the more interior heaven, and thus their representations are as if living. Hence the gladness in each single thing.
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