327. At the conclusion of this conversation I said to the bystanders, 'You have seen from these three experimental proofs the nature of the distinction between the spiritual and the natural; likewise why the natural man is invisible to the spiritual, and the spiritual man to the natural. Yet they are closely associated as regards affections and thoughts, and so in presence. That is why, headmaster, when I was on my way I was now visible and now invisible to you.'
After this a voice was heard from the higher heaven saying to the headmaster, 'Come up here.' He went up, and on his return he said that angels, like himself, had not previously known the difference between the spiritual and the natural, because they had never been given the opportunity of making the comparison with a person who was simultaneously in both worlds; and these differences can only become known by making such a comparison.
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