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 spiritual bodies, be seen by our spiritual eyes and beard by our spiritual ears. They then speak to us in our native tongue.

How can a spirit who thinks and speaks from the universal language of ideas, address a man in an earthly language, so that if a dozen men of different nationalities were listening, each one would hear his own language spoken? This apparent mystery is easily explained.

A man cannot see or hear an angel or spirit unless his spiritual senses are open. When a spirit comes to such a man, he takes upon himself the man's interior or spiritual memory, and enters into everything the man possesses as if it were his own. His ideas clothe themselves with words derived from the man's memory, because the spirit has assumed the spiritual state of the man's life and now thinks from his standpoint. When he leaves the man, he forgets every word of human language, and thinks that the message he delivered was couched in his own spiritual speech.

The Divine Wisdom, which is the source of all thought, in passing through the minds of the celestial angels is finitely manifested as the thought or wisdom of that degree of life. The angelic thought, passing down to the next degree below it, becomes