1311. But hereditary evils are of various kinds. In little children, and boys and girls, they seem to be able to be tempered by goodness, just as the colors black, green, blue are tempered by light, producing the kinds of shades that are in a rainbow. It is a different matter if they go on to add evils by actual practice.

The love of self in little children born from parents of that kind, is like black, love of the world like yellow, the love of earthly things like green. These colors, however, being tempered by light take on beautiful appearances, like little children in heaven. 1748, 12 March. Those colors were seen by me faintly, and as if they were one unbroken something; so they can be moderated. It appeared as a watery, rainy atmosphere.