Afterlife: A Guided Tour of Heaven and Its Wonders - Swedenborg ...

AFTERLIFE
looks away. The reason this sort of thing results from the
gaze of angels is that their sight comes from the light of
heaven, and heaven’s light is divine truth. Eyes corre -
spond to truths from good.
The Language of Angels
Angels talk with each other just the way we do in this
world. They talk about various things—domestic matters,
community concerns, issues of moral life, and issues of
spiritual life. There is no difference except that they talk
with each other more intelligently than we do because
they talk from a deeper level of thought.
I have often been allowed to be in their company and
talk with them like one friend with another, or sometimes
like one stranger with another; and since at such times I
was in a state like theirs, it seemed exactly as though I were
talking with people on earth.
Angelic language, like human language, is differenti -
ated into words. It is similarly uttered audibly and heard
audibly. Angels have mouths and tongues and ears just as
we do; and they also have an atmosphere in which the
sound of their language is articulated. However, it is a spir -
i tual atmosphere that is adapted to angels, who are spir -
itual. Angels breathe in their atmosphere and use their
breath to utter words just the way we do in ours.
All people in heaven have the same language. They all
understand each other, no matter what community they
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