Heaven and Hell - Swedenborg Foundation

HEAVEN AND HELL 279
acknowledged the Divine, loved the Word, and lived a spiritual
moral life (of which above, n. 319), to such the sciences have
served as a means of becoming wise, and also of corroborating
the things pertaining to faith. The interiors of the mind of such
have been perceived by me, and were seen as transparent from
light of a glistening white, flamy, or blue color, like that of
translucent diamonds, rubies, and sapphires; and this in
accordance with confirmations in favor of the Divine and
Divine truths drawn from science. Such is the appearance of
true intelligence and wisdom when they are presented to view
in the spiritual world. This appearance is derived from the light
of heaven; and that light is Divine truth going forth from the
Lord, which is the source of all intelligence and wisdom (see
above, n. 126–133).
[2] The planes of that light, in which variegations like those
of colors exist, are the interiors of the mind; and these
variegations are produced by confirmations of Divine truths by
means of such things as are in nature, that is, in the sciences. 232
For the interior mind of man looks into the things of the
natural memory, and the things there that will serve as proofs it
sublimates as it were by the fire of heavenly love, and
withdraws and purifies them even into spiritual ideas. This is
unknown to man as long as he lives in the body, because there
he thinks both spiritually and naturally, and he has no
perception of the things he then thinks spiritually, but only of
those he thinks naturally. But when he has come into the
spiritual world he has no perception of what he thought
naturally in the world, but only of what he thought spiritually.
Thus is his state changed.
232. Most beautiful colors are seen in heaven (n. 1053, 1624).
Colors in heaven are from the light there, and are modifications or
variegations of that light (n. 1042, 1043, 1053, 1624, 3993, 4530, 4742,
4922).
Thus they are manifestations of truth from good, and they signify such
things as pertain to intelligence and wisdom (n. 4530, 4677, 4922, 9466).