sweet and familiar dwelling-place of our souls. For, according to the dispositions we indulge, the purposes we cherish, the plans of life we pursue, the motives we allow to govern us, we are actually building while here on earth our everlasting habitations;—building them beautiful and symmetrical like the palaces of heaven, if our ends of life be high and heavenly, but dark and dismal like the abodes of hell, if our ends be mean and selfish.
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GARMENTS IN HEAVEN.
ANOTHER question which people are inclined to ask about heaven, is: Are the angels clad in garments? If so, are they all clothed alike? And if not alike, upon what does the diversity depend? What determines the character and quality of their garments? The following are Swedenborg's answers to these questions:
