arbors with entrances of verdant fret-work, and walks around them,—all of such beauty as no language can describe. . . . There are also species of trees and flowers there, such as were never seen and could not exist in the world. On the trees also are fruits according to the good of love in which the inteiligent are principled. Such things are seen by them, because a garden and paradise and also fruit trees and flowers correspond to intelligence and wisdom.
"The paradisiacal scenery of heaven is stupendous. There are paradisiacal gardens presented to view, of an immense extent, consisting of all sorts of trees, of a beauty and pleasantness exceeding every idea of human thought, which yet appear in so living a manner before their external sight, that they not only see them in the gross, but also perceive every single object much more vividly than the bodily sight does when exercised on similar objects here on earth."—A. C, n. 1622./
"Representatives are presented in the other life according to states of the interiors with spirits, for they are correspondences. Around spirits who are in truths from good, appear the most beautiful representatives, namely, houses and palaces glittering with gold and precious stones, also gardens and paradises of ineffable beauty; all these from correspondence. But around those who are in truths not from good, there appear nothing but craggy places, rocks, and bogs, and sometimes shrubberies, but unpleasant and barren; these also are from correspondence. But around those who are in falsities from evil, there appear fens, privies and other offensive objects: the reason of which is, that all representatives in the other life are external things figured according to the states of the interiors; for thus the spiritual world presents itself visible there."—Ibid, n. 10,194.
