6492. My father once appeared to me in a dream, and I spoke to him, saying that after he has become responsible for himself a son ought not to acknowledge his father as his father, as he did previously. For the reason why he should acknowledge him when he is being brought up is that at that time his father stands in place of the Lord; and during that time he does not know, except as his father leads him, how he should act. But when he becomes responsible for himself and can think for himself, and it seems to him that he can control his life for himself, the Lord must be his Father, in whose place his natural father had previously functioned. I spoke these things in my dream, and when I woke up there seemed to come down from heaven a long scroll attached to rods and tied round by means of very beautiful pieces of fabric of a bright blue colour. Their beauty was beyond description. I was told that angels often make such gifts to one another.