19. After this the angels instructed the newcomers about what they had heard and seen. 'The things you have seen', they said, 'show in brief the Lord's coming and the events that will then take place. God, who appeared from the sun above the cloud, was the Lord our Saviour. 'The shining cloud beneath Him was the angelic heaven, where Divine Truth appeared in its own light. The Lord's speech with the angels there was inspiration. The trumpets seen in their hands and at their lips were not trumpets, but representations of their speech amongst themselves as the result of inspiration. The dew falling from the cloud upon the earth and hardening into manna represented the celestial affections of thoughts in their speech. The rain which dissolved the manna, that celestial food, into the dew it had been before, so that it was absorbed by the earth and dripped through to those who lived below, represented the influx of Divine Truth from the Word with men in the world, who come out and receive it in their spirits and in their hearts. The tables and heaps of books upon them were not tables or books, but representations of mental intentions and deeds caused by them, according to which believers and unbelievers shall be judged. The shining cloud itself, in which the angels were seen, represented the Lord's Divine Truths among them; for spheres of thoughts from truths and affections from goods proceeding from angels everywhere appear as clouds.'