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 "Since the garments of the angels correspond to their intelligence, therefore they correspond also to truth, for all intelligence is from divine truth. Therefore whether we say that angels are clothed according to intelligence or according to divine truth, it is the same thing. The garments of some glitter as from flame; and those of others shine as from light, because flame corresponds to good, and light to truth derived from good. The garments of some are bright and white without splendor, and those of others are of diverse colors, because the divine good and truth are less refulgent, and also variously received, with the less intelligent.

"That the garments of the angels do not merely appear as garments, but that they really are garments, is manifest from these considerations: that they not only see them, but also feel them; that they have many garments; that they take them off and put them on; that they lay aside those which are not in use, and when they come into use again they resume them. That they are clothed with a variety of garments I have witnessed a thousand times. I inquired whence they obtained them, and they told me from the Lord; that they received them as gifts, and that they are sometimes clothed without knowing how. They also said that their garments are changed according to the changes of their state; that in the first and second states they are bright and shining, and in the third and fourth states rather more dim; and that this also is from correspondence, because their changes of state are changes as to intelligence and wisdom.

"Since every one in the spiritual world is clothed according to his intelligence, thus according to the truths from which his intelligence is derived, therefore those in the hells, being without truths, appear only in torn, squalid and miserable garments, each one according to his insanity. Nor can they wear any others."—H. H. n. 177-'81.