Arcana Coelestia (Elliott) n. 2296

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2296. The way in which everything is instilled into them by means of delightful and pleasant things suited to their disposition has also been shown to me, for I have been allowed to see the young children clothed most gorgeously. Around the breast they had a garland of flowers that were a blaze of most lovely and heavenly colours, and garlands in addition around their tender little arms. On one occasion I was also allowed to see young children together with virgins who were their governesses in a paradise garden. The garden consisted not so much of trees as of what looked like laurel pergolas, and so of covered parts, and was also very beautifully laid out with paths leading to the more interior parts. I also saw the young children themselves clothed in the same way as those described already, and when they entered the garden the festoon of flowers above the entrance shone in a most cheerful way. All this makes clear the nature of the things that delight them, as also does the fact that by means of things that give them pleasure and delight they are led to the goods that belong to the innocence and charity that are being instilled by the Lord unceasingly into those things in which they delight and take pleasure.


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