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 Then look at the practical considerations with which this disclosure, like all the others about heaven, is fraught. The garments of the angels, like their habitations and their whole environment, are indissolubly bound to themselves as effects to their producing cause. The quality and appearance of their dress are in perfect correspondence with their states of life, and change with those states. Their understandings are stored with the beautiful and precious truths of heavenly wisdom. These clothe and adorn their minds, and create for themselves, by the unerring law of correspondence, garments of corresponding worth and beauty visible to the outward eye.

And here, let it be borne in mind (for it is the practical lesson to be learned from this disclosure), we are daily weaving and working for ourselves the garments we shall wear in the great Hereafter. And we can wear no others than those we make, as it were, with our own fingers. If we are sedulously imbibing heavenly intelligence, seeking to have our minds clothed and adorned with the truths of wisdom from the Divine Word, as only those are who are careful to live or do the truths they learn, then we are weaving for our souls garments of heavenly texture and brilliancy. But if we are regardless of the Divine precepts, if we fail to clothe our minds with the truths of wisdom, as do those who neglect to apply these truths to life, then we shall have no garments, or none but filthy and ragged ones, in the Hereafter, to cover the shame of our nakedness. Therefore, saith the Lord: "Blessed is he that watcheth and keepeth his garments, lest he walk naked and they see his shame."