12. The angels then said, "We have been chosen from heaven to instruct newcomers from the countries of the natural world, since all who arrive here from there, are in a foolish belief about heaven, yea, even about salvation; wherefore unless those follies are dissipated, which is effected by instruction, their rational, which is above the memory, and grows wise from the reception of celestial light, would be closed, and this being closed, from being men they would become animals, with this sole difference, that they would still be able to think from the external senses, and speak from this thought alone.