686. In the Word we read that the Lord God our Redeemer baptizes with the Holy Spirit and with fire. This means the Lord regenerates us with divine truth that is related to faith and divine goodness that is related to love and goodwill; see above in the first section under this heading [684].

In the heavens, those who have been regenerated by the Holy Spirit, that is, by divine truth that is related to faith, are differentiated from those who have been regenerated by fire, that is, by divine goodness that is related to love. The angels who have been regenerated by divine truth that is related to faith walk around in heaven in clothes of white linen and are called spiritual angels. Those who have been regenerated by divine goodness that is related to love walk around in red clothes and are called heavenly angels.

The following passages refer to the angels that walk around in white clothes: "Clothed in linen that is white and clean, they follow the Lamb" (Revelation 19:14). "They will walk with me in white" (Revelation 3:4; ). The angels seen at the Lord's tomb were wearing "white" and "shining" clothes (Matthew 28:3; Luke 24:4). All these angels were of this type. Linen means the just actions of those who are holy, as is openly stated in Revelation 19:8. (For the fact that the clothes mentioned in the Word mean truths, and clothes of white and linen mean divine truths, see Revelation Unveiled 379, where this is demonstrated.)

The angels who have been regenerated by divine goodness that is related to love have red clothing because red is the color of love. It is a color derived from the sun's fire and its redness, and the sun means love (see Revelation Unveiled 468, 725).

It is because clothes mean truths that the guest who was found not wearing a wedding garment was thrown out and hurled into outer darkness (Matthew 22:11-13).