256. THAT FAITH IN GOD MESSIAH CONJOINS INMOST THINGS WITH OUTERMOST When I was in that cherubic sphere it was then given me to know that those in that sphere who are angels do not know what is taking place in the ultimate heaven, except when there is communication with them by the mercy of God Messiah and by the presence of God Messiah Himself with them through faith, so that they can know and perceive it. It was also granted me to know this, by the mercy of God Messiah, for when I fixed my internal intuition on God Messiah alone, it was then said to me from thence that thus they knew something of what was going on in the sphere beneath them, and what I was thinking. Wherefore faith in God Messiah, and from Him through the inmost and the more interior heavens into the sphere of man, is what conjoins and consociates all things, from the Supreme even to the lowest things. Without faith in God Messiah things interior would be torn away from those more interior, and so would perish. 1747, Nov. 20, o.s.