nding called rationality; rationality itself comes from spiritual
light and not from natural light. The spiritual light which they have in
rationality is turned, however, into infernal light, as the light of day
is into the dark of night.

[2] Nevertheless, all those in the spiritual world, whether in the
heavens or the hells, see in their own light as clearly as man sees in
his by day. This is because everyone's eyesight is formed to receive the
light in which it finds itself. Thus the eyesight of the angels of heaven
is formed to receive the light in which they see, and the sight of the
spirits of hell is formed to receive their light; this is comparatively
like that of birds of night and bats, which see objects at night and in
the evening as clearly as other birds see them by day, for their eyes are
formed to receive their light.

[3] The difference between the one light and the other appears very
clearly, however, to those who look from one to the other. When, for
instance, an angel of heaven looks into hell he sees only thick darkness,
and when a spirit of hell looks into heaven he sees only thick darkness
there. For heavenly wisdom is like thick darkness to those in hell; in
turn, infernal insanity is like thick darkness to those in heaven. It is
plain from all this that such as a man's understanding is, such is the
light he has, and that after death everyone comes into his own light, for
he sees in no other. In the spiritual world, moreover, where all are
spiritual even to the body, the eyes of all are formed to see by their
own light. Everyone's life-love fashions an understanding for itself and
thus a light, also, for love is like the fire of life and from this comes
the light of life.

168. As few know anything about the enlightenment in which the
understanding of a man is who is taught by the Lord, something will be
said of it. There is inner and outer enlightenment from the Lord, and
inner and outer enlightenment from oneself. Inner enlightenment from the
Lord consists in man's perceiving on first hearing something whether it
is true or not; outer enlightenment consists in thought from this. Inner
enlightenment from oneself is simply from confirmation and outer
enlightenment merely from information. We will say something of each.

[2] By inner enlightenment from the Lord a rational person perceives
about many things the moment he hears them whether they are true or not;
for example, that love is the life