HH 487 - Accepting Instruction; HH 489 - The Sight of the Inmost Heaven

HH 487 [2]

On the other hand,
those who are in heavenly love accept instruction,
and as soon as they are brought
into the evils into which they were born,
they see them from truths,
for truths make evils manifest.
From truth which is from good
any one can see evil and its falsity;
but from evil none can see what is good and true;
and for the reason that falsities of evil are darkness
and correspond to darkness;
consequently those that are in falsities from evil
are like the blind,
not seeing the things that are in light,
but shunning them instead like birds of night.
But as truths from good are light,
and correspond to light,
so those that are in truths from good
have sight and open eyes,
and discern the things that pertain to light and shade.

HH 489 [3]

Those that have applied the doctrinals of the church
which are from the Word immediately to life,
are in the inmost heaven,
and surpass all others in their delights of wisdom.
In every object they see what is Divine;
the objects they see indeed with their eyes;
but the corresponding Divine things
flow in immediately into their minds
and fill them with a blessedness
that affects all their sensations.
Thus before their eyes
all things seem to laugh, to play, and to live.