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

AFTERLIFE
sounds and the concepts derived from their affections
through the words. This is why the things that people
have heard in heaven are called ineffable.
Angels can also state completely in a few words the
details that are written in a whole volume, giving each
word something that raises it toward a deeper wisdom.
Their language by nature agrees with their affections, and
every word agrees with their concepts. The words actually
vary in infinite shadings depending on the way they
express in sequence things that are simultaneous in their
thought.
The more inward angels can even tell a speaker’s whole
life from the tone of voice and a few words. From the way
the sound is differentiated by concepts into words, they
actually perceive the speaker’s ruling love, in which, so to
speak, the very details of life are engraved.
Angels are constantly being perfected in wisdom, but
still they cannot to eternity be so perfected that there is
any ratio between their wisdom and the Lord’s divine
wisdom. For the Lord’s divine wisdom is infinite and the
angels’ is finite, and there is no ratio between the infinite
and the finite.
The State of Innocence of Angels in Heaven
Not many people in our world know what innocence is or
what its quality is, and people involved in evil do not
know at all. It is, of course, visible to our eyes—something
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