356. THAT THOUSANDS AND TENS OF THOUSANDS TOGETHER PRAISE GOD MESSIAH WITH ONE MOUTH For a great part of the night there was a multitude of spirits about me, and afterwards a multitude of angels, who flow according to the heavenly form, which form can by no means be described to the human understanding, still less how they flow; and they speak as a one, or with a unanimous voice, which was so perceptible with me, and indeed for a long time in continuation, that as they are speaking nothing is more evident: the form was perceived, the flow was perceived, the unanimity of the voice was perceived. Each one is in the multitude, and considers himself to be: so do all and each, or in general and particular. It can be perceived from their flow, whether they are as yet so initiated that they are also able to act with similar unanimity in spiritual and celestial truths. Wherefore afterwards there were angels around me - perhaps myriads - and this for some time, whose flow was indeed perceptible, but such that I could know no more than that they were flowing in an interior heavenly form; the flow of the more interior form could not be perceived. These angels afterwards told me that throughout the whole night and during some wakeful states they had done nothing else than together praise God Messiah, and indeed with an inmost gladness, so that they were unwilling to be let out of that state. Hence it can be concluded that unanimity results from the harmony of form, besides many more things which can thence be concluded. 1747, Dec. 16.