237. In a single human thought there are myriads of feelings and the like

I was today engaged in a tacit conversation with heavenly beings, and it was given me to grasp clearly with understanding that in one human thought, myriads of myriads of influences from the heavens converge. In thoughts that are empty and earthly, the influences of spirits, or those who are in the third heaven,* converge, but in those that are spiritual and heavenly, the angels' influences, so that God the Messiah arranges human thoughts by means of spirits and angels, with a variety that is great beyond calculation. Wherefore spiritual and heavenly thoughts, which embrace the truths of religion within them, move [the minds of] the whole angelic heaven, when God the Messiah so disposes. * I.e. the last, or third in descending order.