213. [215.] 75. I once saw some English ecclesiastics, and among them also one or two bishops, who had fought for faith alone as though for their altars and hearths; and in accordance with their ideas respecting faith alone and justification by it, they were forming an image to represent that faith. (This can be accomplished impeccably and easily in the spiritual world. They form images there mentally, and the images also become visible, for appearances in the spiritual world originate solely from the inhabitants' ideas.) These ecclesiastics molded into their image all elements of their faith, but when it was finished it appeared in the sight of angels as a terrible monstrosity, as though to frighten them. That is how it appeared in the light of heaven, but to the ecclesiastics' eyes it appeared otherwise, as monstrosities usually do in the dark shadows of fantasy. At first they boasted of the image, but afterward they became ashamed.* * See also no. [10] above.