e and Wisdom?
Here on earth, during their lifetime, such spirits remain pure; they
neither see, nor think, nor speak like other men. There are two ways by
which perception comes,--one internal, the other external. Man is wholly
external, the Angelic Spirit wholly internal. The Spirit goes to
the depth of Numbers, possesses a full sense of them, knows their
significances. It controls Motion, and by reason of its ubiquity it
shares in all things. 'An Angel,' says Swedenborg, 'is ever present to
a man when desired' ('Angelic Wisdom'); for the Angel has the gift of
detaching himself from his body, and he sees into heaven as the
prophets and as Swedenborg himself saw into it. 'In this state,' writes
Swedenborg ('True Religion,' 136), 'the spirit of a man may move from
one place to another, his body remaining where it is,--a condition in
which I lived for over twenty-six years.' It is thus that we should
interpret all Biblical statements which begin, 'The Spirit led me.'
Angelic Wisdom is to human wisdom what the innumerable forces of nature
are to its action, which is one. All things live again, and move and
have their being in the Spirit, which is in God. Saint Paul expresses
this truth when he says, 'In Deo sumus, movemur, et vivimus,'--we live,
we act, we are in God.

"Earth offers no hindrance to the Angelic Spirit, just as the Word
offers him no obscurity. His approaching divinity enables him to see the
thought of God veiled in the Logos, just as, living by his inner being,
the Spirit is in communion with the hidden meaning of all things on this
earth. Science is the language of the Temporal world, Love is that of
the Spiritual world. Thus man takes note of more than he is able
to explain, while the Angelic Spirit sees and comprehends. Science
depresses man; Love exalts the Angel. Science is still seeking, Love
has found. Man judges Nature according to his own relations to her; the
Angelic Spirit judges it in its relation to Heaven. In short, all things
have a voice for the Spirit. Spirits are in the secret of the harmony of
all creations with each other; they comprehend the spirit of sound, the
spirit of color, the spirit of vegetable life; they can question the
mineral, and the mineral makes answer to their thoughts. What to them
are sciences and the treasures of the earth when they grasp all things
by the eye at all moments, when the worlds which absorb the minds of so
many men are to them but the last step from whic