1475. But heavenly angels who have already been initiated and reborn of heavenly seed very fully understand everything that has been said, and in fact no differently than as if the whole person consisted of affection, which is the soul. Others [see the person] as a beautiful tree, whose seed is affection; others, whose sap is affection. Others are able to create-but in the person's likeness-whole pleasure gardens, as it were, and so on. But this is done by a heavenly method, inconceivable to any but those who are in heaven, and not expressible by any words. An example of this is, how charity has everything within it, both of the understanding and of affection, and how the will, which is everything in one's actions, is thus formed out of countless elements, even until there is so much within it that the will finally is one's nature. Its very own properties are engrafted in it by affection-so when they are evil properties, by passions-which therefore constitute its kernel, while matters of understanding what is true and good form its bark or shell. Consequently, when the nature is thus [corrupt], the former kernel becomes rotten, and a new one must be formed by means of the bark-like shells. These matters cannot but seem extremely vague to mankind, whereas to the angels they appear so clear, that they count them among the easiest subjects. For they see countless things within the nucleus, or character, and in the shell, and then they see how, through the shell, so to speak, new saplings are engrafted, which take root in the former kernel as in manure, and thus grow, consuming the kernel formed by the loves of self and the world. And they see how it is consumed, and how truths and goodness therefrom, and then how goodness and truths therefrom, take root. These words I write being led by angels, so that it may be understood as by an obscure example, what their speech is like, or their chain of ideas, which is the same thing as speech. 1748, 17 March.