1183. Since those angels were unable to refrain from such thoughts, although they were exhorted to desist, they were at length removed from their abode, and indeed to a greater distance a little towards the left, having with them a coil like that which women wear on their head, but which was coiled in a beautiful manner. When they had gone some distance, I perceived that they were perhaps going to seek another Lord, or as was said, another heaven where they might act more quietly than in this heaven. On the way, there appeared to them something golden in which they gloried, for all the things they saw were of a golden splendor or radiance, besides other things most beautiful to the sight, as well as artistic and lovely forms, with which they were highly delighted. But they were told that these things are only produced by phantasies, and could not so delight them for long. They were presently introduced into a dark chamber from which they desire to return. I do not as yet know the other things. 1748, Mar. 6.
1183 1/2. Continuation I was also shown how they act. They do not act by gyres and orbits, as the others do, but by linear reciprocations as it were and in a flowing manner, because, as I was told, they induce what is to be thought or spoken, and at the same time what is to be said in reply; for they suppose that they possess the whole man and govern him from themselves, although they do not deny the Lord's superior government. Thus they suppose man to be nothing but their organ by means of which they can act in the world, and they therefore altogether despise the man, and reject him as worthless rubbish when they are unable to make use of him as a servant; they flatter him for the sake of his service. They study themselves alone and care nothing for others. And because they bring forth both the thoughts and also the responses their action is thus reciprocal and flowing. Continuation
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