AC 5396 - A Soft, Sweet Angelic Sound

AC 5396

There was a large crowd of spirits around me,
which sounded like a disorderly lot going by.
They were all grumbling,
declaring that everything was now being destroyed;
for no unity at all was apparent among those
who constituted that crowd of spirits,
which made them fear destruction.
They also imagined that they faced total destruction,
such as takes place
when the situation is
as it was with them.
But I detected in the midst of them
a soft, sweet angelic sound,
which was a wholly well-ordered one.

Angelic choirs were present in the middle of them,
while the actual crowd of spirits
in all their disorder were on the outside.
That angelic stream of sound lasted for a long time,
and I was told that it served to represent
the way in which the Lord regulates
confused and disordered outward elements
from a peaceful center within them;
He brings order
into the disordered most outlying elements
by withholding each one
from the error peculiar to it.