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 tion of evil, will be reproduced hereafter in more beautiful, enchanting and enduring forms. Nor will that histrionic talent, which God has so largely showered upon man, fail to impart under the purest auspices the instruction and amusement it was designed to bestow.

The life and joy of angels have a wider field of action than the pleasures of individual culture and the bestowal of their spiritual possessions upon others. Those happy beings have a vast series of duties to perform for the human race, which will be perpetual; for the physical universe is the necessary basis of the spiritual, and men will never cease to be born in this world and to become angels in the next.

"The angels of every society," says Swedenborg, "are sent on missions to men, to guard them and to withdraw them from evil affections and the thoughts thence originating, and to inspire them with good affections so far as they will freely receive them."

"Are they not all ministering spirits?" says the apostle Paul.

There are societies of angels who have the charge of infants, whom death has early released from the bondage of nature.