169. The natural man can be of the opinion that he would be deprived of all thought if the ideas of time, space and material things were taken away, for upon these all man's thought rests.# But let him know that so far as thoughts partake of time, space and matter, they are limited and confined, but are unlimited and extended so far as they do not partake of these, since the mind is in that measure raised above bodily and worldly things. It is from this that angels have a wisdom such as may be described as incomprehensible, because it does not fall into ideas that are wholly made up of corporeal and worldly things. # Man does not think, as angels do, apart from the idea of time (n. 3404).