Agents, 601 , 603 : 9. See also Envoy spirits
Aimless walking, 3
Algebra, ecclesiastical, 263 note a
Alternations
of delight and discomfort, 158
not fi xed, 159
The ancients
believing they would return to their former
lives, 256
conveying heavenly mysteries by means of
numbers, 263 note a
divine worship among, 306
greetings among, 287
having direct revelations, 306
as heavenly people, 115
mostly becoming angels, 415
Swedenborg conversing with, 323
their knowledge of correspondences, 84 , 87
their union with heaven’s angels, 252
their view of the Lord, 82 , 84
writing used by, 260
Angelic communities
assigned to protect us, 391
countless numbers of, 41 – 50 , 420
distances between, 42
entrances to, 429
facial resemblance among individuals in
each, 47 , 70
forms of service provided by, 388 , 391 – 392 ,
403
intermediate, 27
precisely differentiated, 594
Angelic intelligence and wisdom
analogies to, 270
compared with our ignorance, 269
fl owing according to heaven’s form, 201 –
212 , 266
incomprehensibility of, 265 , 270
indescribability of, 269
ineffability of, 269
as knowledge about correspondences, 87 , 176
light in heaven proportional to, 128 note c
means by which little children are brought
into full, 4
proportional to auras of life, 49
seeing the quality in others from their faces,
48
simple people arriving at, 18 , 268
source of, 199
within us on earth, 467
Angelic power, 228 – 233
coming from the Lord, 230
Angelic speech
already within us, 243 note f
coming from their thought and affection,
234 – 245
concord in, 242
entering us, 251
variations in, 244
Angelic thoughts, in visual form, 240
Angels. See also Heavenly angels; Spirits; Spiri-
tual angels; Swedenborg: granted to be in
the company of angels
accepting that everything good comes from
the Lord, 8 note a
activities in heaven, 387 – 394
all in perfect human form, 73 – 77 , 250 , 314
auras fl owing out from every, 49 note e
auras surrounding, 17
avoiding those who place merit in good
deeds, 10
blowing trumpets, 1
of both sexes, 366
called gods, 8 note a, 231 note a
calling total assemblage of heaven, 7
conversation among, 234
declining all credit for anything good, 9
defi ning, 7 , 33 , 77 note h, 431
depression in, 160
discernment and volition of, 136
each a heaven in smallest form, 51 – 58 , 200
eternal perfecting of, 158 note d, 221 , 273
female, mothering children in heaven, 332
as forms of thoughtfulness, 17 note e
free of any selfi shness, 272
garments appearing in, 177 – 182
having no notion of time, 162 – 168
having the east always before their eyes, 143
of higher heavens seeing into lower, 209
higher vs. lower (more inward vs. more out-
ward), 22 , 207 – 211
homes and houses of, 183 – 190
how things appear to them, 171 – 172
infi nite variety of, 414
joyfulness of, 535
language of, 234 – 245 , 463 note b
light and warmth for, 127 – 128
loving everyone, 450
of lower heavens guessing about the higher,
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