AC 5530 - Our Love Is What Is In Our Core or Midst

AC 5530 [2]

With those who are in the loves of self and of the world,
such things as favor these loves are in the midst,
and such as slightly favor them are in the circumferences;
and the things which are contrary to them,
as those which relate
to love to God and love toward the neighbor,
are thrown out.
In such a state are the infernals.
And this order sometimes causes
a lucidity to appear about them;
but within this lucidity, where they themselves are,
all is dusky, monstrous, and horrible.

But with the angels
there is a flaming radiance in the midst
from the good of celestial and spiritual love,
and from this there is a light or brightness round about.
Those who so appear are likenesses of the Lord;
for the Lord Himself,
when He showed His divine to Peter, James, and John,
"shone in the face as the sun,
and His raiment became as the light" (Matthew 17:2).
That the angels who are likenesses
appear in flaming radiance and consequently in white
is plain from the angel who descended from heaven
and rolled away the stone from the door of the sepulcher:
His appearance was as lightning,
and his raiment white as snow (Matthew 28:3).