265. [See also WE 5832, explaining Exod. 35: 24.]
5833. When what is evil in a person is portrayed, a choir of angels raises it up and turns it into good, and thus into what is holy. This is accomplished by means of various displays, which it is difficult to describe here. For there are tens of thousands of such portrayals, by whose help evils are turned into good - or what is profane is lifted up, and becomes holy. These displays I have at times [Good; Evil; Profane; Portrayal (Display, Representation); Holy]