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 not spiritually as the angel is obliged to think by the very laws of his being.

How then does he think spiritually?

That beautiful and glorious nature which seems to surround him, is a glowing mirror of his own affections and thoughts and those of the angels associated with him. It is an open book to him, whose every object is a word, every movement a sentence, conveying to his mind some spiritual or celestial idea. He does not think of the objects before him any more than we think of the paper, ink, letters and marks of punctuation, when we are reveling with delight over the pages of some favorite author.

Sweden borg says:

"Such is the architecture of heaven that you would say you there beheld the very art itself; and no wonder, for it is from heaven that that art is derived to men on earth. The angels said that such objects as have been mentioned, and innumerable others still more perfect, are presented before their eyes by the Lord; but that nevertheless they impart more pleasure to their minds than to their eyes, because in every particular they discern correspondences, and through those correspondences things divine."