3626. The existence of such correspondence is very well known in the next life not only to angels but also to spirits, even to evil ones. From it angels know the deepest secrets in man, and the deepest secrets in the world and in the whole natural order there. This has often been made clear to me from the fact that when I have spoken about some part of the human being they know not only how the whole of that part is structured, the way in which it functions, and the purpose it serves, but also countless other details about it, more than man is ever capable of discovering or indeed understanding. In fact they know the order within which these exist and the sequence in which they are related to one another. They know these things from an insight into heavenly order which they can trace and to which the order belonging to that particular part of the body corresponds. Thus because they are in touch with the first origins of things, they therefore know the things that spring from those first origins.