Heaven and Hell - Swedenborg Foundation

HEAVEN AND HELL 179
angels, fall into words analogous to affection; nevertheless this
is what causes man, when he enters the other life, to come into
the same speech as spirits and angels, and thus to know how to
speak without instruction. 177
But more on this subject
hereafter.
244. In heaven, as has been said above, all have one speech;
but it is varied in this respect, that the speech of the wise is
more interior and more full of variations of affections and ideas
of thought, while the speech of the less wise is more external
and less full; and the speech of the simple is still more external,
consisting of words from which the meaning is to be gathered
in the same way as when men are talking to one another. There
is also speech by the face, terminating in something sonorous
modified by ideas. Again, there is speech in which heavenly
representatives are mingled with the ideas, and go forth from
ideas to sight. There is also speech by gestures that correspond
to affections, and represent things like those expressed by their
words. There is speech by means of the generals of affections
and the generals of thoughts. There is speech like thunder;
besides other kinds.
245. The speech of evil and infernal spirits is likewise natural
to them because it is from affections; but it is from evil
affections and consequent filthy ideas, to which angels are
utterly averse. Thus the modes of speaking in hell are opposite
to those of heaven; and in consequence evil spirits cannot
endure angelic speech, and angels cannot endure infernal
speech. To the angels infernal speech is like a bad odor striking
177. There is spiritual or angelic speech belonging to man, though he
does not know it (n. 4104). The ideas of the internal man are spiritual, but
during his life in the world man perceives them naturally, because he then
thinks in what is natural (n. 10236, 10237, 10551).
Man comes after death into his interior ideas (n. 3226, 3342, 3343,
10568, 10604).
Those ideas then form his speech (n. 2470–2479).