When I was writing the things found in number 1577, namely that the thoughts of angelic spirits and of angels are like parables [1576], certain spirits were doubting, because they had not well understood the idea of a parable. Therefore the angels and angelic spirits tested the matter, whether their ideas came down into parables, and it was confirmed by them that they come down in no other way than in parables, for parables contain generals. 1748, 26 Sept.