1309. But interior or angelic thought is different. It is of an interior degree which is not understood by spirits, nor can spirits enter into that state unless they put off, as it were, the lower spiritual things. It may be likened almost to the vivid thought of a man when having vivid dreams. Corporeal things, as well as those which are nearest to corporeal things and appear as interior, are then separated. 1748, Mar. 12.