215. * with me, whereby they are given to perceive all the thoughts of my heart - * if this had been the case at that time, then anyone can judge that heaven could never have been with them, since even then, at heart they were worshipping idols, etc. Would not then, in the place of the angels of God the Messiah, the devil and his gang have taken over? To prevent this, many things which now follow took place. 5433. But about these matters many particulars could be told, specifically, how an aura, or choirs of angels, is formed around a person so that nothing but their outer aspect may come, by a series of steps, to the innermost regions; and also, how [these choirs are separated] from the person's inner qualities, so that the person may be [outwardly] present in the choir of angels of God the Messiah. For no one can be inwardly in the choir of God the Messiah unless they are such that their inward qualities interact with the choir: and this state is brought about by God the Messiah; (besides many more particulars about which it was granted me to speak with