22. And the novitiates asked, "How can these things be called the abomination of desolation?" The angels replied, "They are all in falsities as to faith, and in evils as to life. The interiors of their minds are infernal, and the exteriors from feigned morality, are, as it were, heavenly; for they are sycophants and hypocrites, and because they are in the midst between the heavens where the angels are, and the earths where men are, no Divine truth from the Lord can pass through the heavens to the men of the earth, but it is first received by them, and being received is inverted and falsified, not otherwise than is the case with light falling upon an opaque cloud, and the heat of the sun falling into a swamp."