1958. When a communication of inward things is also granted, there is not only the speaking of spirits, but a cognizance of their thoughts, and their feelings, and at the same time an awareness of what these are like, together with a still deeper or more universal thinking. Then those generals, which have been called containers, are filled up to various degrees, some less and some more fully, as it pleases the Lord, and the inward parts are likewise purified, even until there is communication with angels. Nothing in the inward parts comes distinctly to view, but only that there is something there, in which many, very many elements are contained. Thus they contain countless elements-just so many generals again serving as containers for the understanding of the more inward angels, and so on. In this manner is the transition from the world of spirits into the angelic heaven. For spirits cannot find out what angels are thinking, unless it is communicated to them according to the Lord's good pleasure. 1748, 14 May.