Divine Love and Wisdom (Rogers) n. 135

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135. All the interior elements of both mind and body in angels are turned to the Lord as the sun. Angels possess an intellect and will, and they have a face and body. They also possess the interior elements of the intellect and will and of the face and body. The interior elements of the intellect and will are those connected with their interior affection and thought. The interior elements of the face are the brains, and the interior elements of the body are its viscera, of which the primary ones are the heart and lungs. In short, angels possess each and every component that people have on earth. It is because of them that angels are human. The outward form apart from those inner elements is not what causes angels to be human, but the outward form in conjunction with them, indeed, as a result of them. Angels would otherwise be only semblances of human beings, having no life in them, because they would lack any form of life within.


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