450. Today, in a state of wakefulness, I also learnt how the case is with regard to those things which relate to the representative speech of the angels. Whatever occurs is assumed as an object, whether it be affection, or understanding, or anything similar, and by means of such objects subtle representations are made; thus the objects [represented] are things abstracted from the objects of the senses, as are affection, understanding, and color; these are afterwards circumstanced according to those things which are turned over in the mind. The heavens now have communication thereby.