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 they are sot invested with a material body, but with a body like that of the angels. They are in that higher or more interior sphere of human life, where all things; are more perfect than they are in this lower sphere; for it is a universal law, that the perfection of things increases, according to the progress towards interiors. Being spirits untrammelled by gross matter, they act immediately according to the promptings of their interior affections; and all their mental and bodily powers are more rapidly unfolded than those of infants in this world. Then they are far more wisely governed and instructed, being in constant association with, and under the immediate care and direction of, some of the best of the angels. To quote again the treatise on Heaven and Hell: