336. When enlightened knowledge of spiritual and heavenly matters, which is pure truth, is [embraced] by belief and thought in a human mind, it can delightfully move the whole heaven of angels

Today I was taught by the mercy of God the Messiah that just the thoughts of heavenly truths move the angels, and thus the whole of heaven, in an ineffable manner. For the angelic heaven is on the path of truth, because there cannot possibly be a truth but that it leads to God the Messiah through belief, this being the source of the angels' pleasure and even happiness. For those are angels who take delight together in the happiness of all and long for the salvation of all, for this is the property of mercy, and of love, and of pleasure and happiness, and it results in a sharing of happiness throughout the whole of heaven. I was taught these things by some who had felt that heavenly pleasure, at a moment when I was thinking heavenly truths: they then, as if awakened from a peaceful sleep, got a sense of their pleasantness, and gave witness to this and confirmed it to me aloud. [Psalm 4.]* 1747, 4 December. * Written and partly deleted in the original, this annotation perhaps refers to verses 7 and 8.