182. But degrees of spiritual heat cannot be described from experience because love to which spiritual heat corresponds does not fall thus within ideas of thought. But degrees of spiritual light can be described because light, pertaining to thought, does fall within its ideas. From the degrees of light the degrees of spiritual heat can even be comprehended for they are in a like degree. Therefore with regard to the spiritual light in which angels are, it has been granted me to see this with my eyes. With angels of the higher heavens, the light is so shining white as to be indescribable, even by comparison with the shining whiteness of snow, and so glowing as to be indescribable even by comparison with a beam of light of the world's sun. In a word, that light exceeds by a thousand variations the mid-day light upon earth. But the light with angels of the lower heavens can, to a certain extent, be described by means of comparisons, although it still exceeds the most intense light of our world. The light of the angels of the higher heavens is indescribable for the reason that their light makes one with their wisdom, and because their wisdom, relatively to the wisdom of men, is ineffable, thus also is their light. From these few things, it can be established that there are degrees of light; and because wisdom and love are in similar degree, it follows that there are similar degrees of heat.