2297. What is more, while the young children are being perfected even the sky around them accords with the state of their perfection. As regards the skies in the next life that occur in countless variety and with indescribable beauty, see what has been mentioned from experience in Volume One, in 1621. In particular skies manifest themselves to them which seem to contain the shapes of young children at play, but too small to be seen individually and perceptible solely in the inner recesses of the mind. From these shapes they gain the heavenly idea that every single thing around them is alive and shares in the Lord's life, which idea gives them a feeling of happiness in their inmost being.

6859. 'And the Amorite and the Perizzite' means occupied by evils and the falsities that arise from them. This is clear from the representation of 'the Amorite' as evil, dealt with in 1857, 6306; and from the representation of 'the Perizzite' as falsity, dealt with in 1573, 1574. There are two sources of evil, and there are also two sources of falsity. One source of evil lies in false teaching or else false religion, the other in desires belonging to self-love and love of the world. Falsity from the first source springs, as stated, from false teaching or else false religion, while falsity from the second source springs from the evil which the desires belonging to self-love and love of the world crave after. Those evils are what 'the Canaanite' and 'the Amorite' mean, and the falsities what 'the Hittite' and 'the Perizzite' mean.