When a soul or person on earth tries to pretend, to think one thing and say another, it can become as obvious before the angels as a large black cloud before the eyes. There are indeed some who can pretend with their thought, as if they had a double thinking, as I do, and they imagine they can simulate so well as to deceive even angels, as one of them said. But I was enabled to learn that such [deception] is also seen - by myself and by spirits as a thin vapor, but by angels as a cloud, or as smelly smoke. Thus things which are very hidden to man, are this visible to angels of only the inward heaven.* By angels of the very inward heaven, they cannot even be noticed, due to their grossness - only if there is something more deeply hidden that does not agree with them, or like circumstances. 1748, 23 February. * See 262 and footnote 3.