5586. A certain spirit turned himself to me and spoke in my language, but when to a spirit, he spoke in the spiritual tongue. He also observed the distinction; that, namely, the speech of angelic spirits is sweet, and differs from the ideas of others, because their interior ideas are filled with truths from good. Evil spirits do not understand the speech of these, when they speak from their ideas as well as [from the interior memory*]. The speech of the evil is foul, and good spirits do not like to hear it. The speech of the celestial is external; for they do not talk about anything else than those things which they see, and not those which they bear.)))) (((These things were written when a spirit was present who had no ideas, but only spoke from the interior memory apart from ideas.* Therefore, I was not able to describe it from thought. By means of so acting he prevented me.))) * The reader will find in the second of two places marked thus, our warrant for filling out the sense in the first of them as we have done. -ED.