261. 5826. So that these facts might be confirmed, it was portrayed how these matters stand. First, this whole verse was read, without my paying attention to it, and it was told that still the same effect was experienced on the spiritual plane. This I could not grasp, except on the basis of other similar experiences in which things are drawn up and away from a person on earth, and the choir of angels links them in a way that they take on holiness before reaching God the Messiah. So each thing is turned into something holy; and this takes place in someone when everything, even evil, is turned to good. This I have been allowed to learn very well, from experience within myself, over a long period of time. So these are the "[gold] links"* [verse 22]. * I.e. "clasp, necklace, ring, and girdle" (Acton), or "bracelets, and earrings, and rings, and tablets" (KJV), said in WE 5823 to signify "all manner of links."