Afterlife: A Guided Tour of Heaven and Its Wonders - Swedenborg ...

Heaven
everything perceived by and apparent to angels corre -
sponds to their wisdom.
Like everything else, the clothes angels wear corre -
spond, and since they do correspond they truly exist.
Their clothes reflect their intelligence, so all the people in
heaven are dressed according to their intelligence; and
since one will surpass another in intelligence, one will
have better quality clothing than another. The most
intel ligent wear clothes that gleam as though aflame,
some radiant as though alight. The less intelligent wear
pure white and soft white clothes that do not shine, and
those still less intelligent wear clothes of various colors.
The angels of the inmost heaven, though, are naked.
We can tell that angels’ clothes do not merely look like
clothes but really are because they not only see them, they
feel them as well. Further, they have many garments that
they take off and put on, and they put away the ones they
are not using and put back on the ones they are. I have
seen thousands of times that they wear different clothes.
I have asked them where they got their clothes, and
they have told me that their clothes come from the Lord
and are given to them, and that sometimes they are
clothed without noticing it.
Angels’ Homes and Houses
Since there are communities in heaven, with people liv -
ing there the way we do, they too have homes; and these
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