143. It is still more difficult to comprehend in the world that in every turning of their face and body, the angels have the east facing them, since man according as he turns has every quarter facing him. This, then, will be explained. Angels, like men, turn and move their faces and bodies in every direction, and yet they have the east always in front of their eyes. But the turnings of angels are unlike the turnings of men, because they are from another origin. They appear the same but yet they are not. The origin of those turnings is the ruling love, from which all directions with angels and spirits are determined, for, as just said, their interiors are actually turned towards their common centre, thus in heaven to the Lord as a Sun. Consequently, because love is continually present before their interiors, and the face comes into existence from the interiors, for it is their external form, therefore the love that is ruling is always before their face. So, in the heavens this is the Lord as a Sun, because it is from Him that they have their love.# Also because the Lord Himself is with the angels in His love, it is the Lord Who causes them to look to Him whithersoever they turn. These matters cannot be further elucidated at this stage, but they will be presented more clearly to the understanding in subsequent sections, especially in those dealing with Representations and Appearances, and with Time and Space in Heaven. That the angels have the Lord constantly facing them, it has been granted me to know and perceive from much experience. For, whenever I have been in company with angels, the Lord's presence was noticed before my face, not actually seen and yet perceptible in a light; and angels have quite often testified that this is so. As the Lord is constantly before the faces of the angels, therefore it is even said in the world that those who believe in the Lord and love Him have God before their eyes and face and that they look to Him and see Him. Man speaks in this way from the spiritual world for, although he is ignorant of their source, it is from there that many expressions are in human speech. # In the spiritual world all constantly torn themselves to their loves; and the quarters there have their beginning in the face and are determined by it (n. 10130, 10189, 10420, 10702). The face is formed to a correspondence with the interiors (n. 4791-4805, 5695). Therefore the interiors shine forth from the face (n. 3527, 4066, 4796). With angels the face makes one with the interiors (n. 4796, 4797, 4799, 5695, 8249). The influx of the interiors into the face and its muscles (n. 3631, 4800).