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 Rh intellectual, thought naturally and not spiritually. Yet in the other life, when the spirit is in the spiritual world, he does not think naturally, but spiritually, and to think spiritually is to think intellectually or rationally. Hence it is that the external or natural memory, as to those things which are material, is then quiescent, and those things only come into use which man has imbibed in the world by means of material things, and has made rational."—H. H., 463, 464.

53 (p. 105).—"The speech of an angel or a spirit with man is heard as sonorously as the speech of a man with a man; yet it is not heard by others who stand near, but by himself alone; the reason is, because the speech of an angel or spirit flows first into the man's thought, and by an internal way into his organ of hearing, and thus moves that from within; but the speech of man with man flows first into the air, and by an external way into his organ of hearing, and moves it from without. Hence it is evident that the speech of an angel and of a spirit with man is heard in man, and, because it equally moves the organs of hearing, that it is also equally sonorous."—H. H., 248.

54 (p. 105).—See Note 38.

Compare Goethe's Faust, Act V., "Pater Seraphicus," to the "Seligen Knaben:"

Steigt herab in meine Augen

Welt—und erdgemass Organ!

Konnt sie als die euren brauchen:

Schaut euch diese Gegend an!"

55 (p. 106).—"Man has no other knowledge than that he thinks and wills from himself, though he does not do so in the smallest degree; for thought and will cannot be so united to the recipient as to be his own, precisely as the light and heat of the sun cannot be united to a subject of the earth, and become, like it, material. But the light and heat of life affect and fill the recipient, precisely according to the quality of the acknowledgment that they are not his own, but the Lord's; and the quality of the acknowledgment is precisely according to the quality of the love in acting according to the Commandments, which are uses."—''Ath. Cr.,'' 39.

56 (p. 106).—"Although all things in heaven appear in place and in space just as in the world, still the angels have no notion and idea of place and space. All progressions in the spiritual world are made