AC 3316 [3]
It is the same with other things in the Word; as for example when a person reads of bread, the angels have no perception of bread, but instantly instead of bread they perceive celestial love and all that belongs thereto, that is, to love to the Lord; and when wine is read of in the Word, they do not perceive wine, but instead of wine spiritual love and all that belongs thereto, that is, to love toward the neighbor. So when pottage is read of, they do not perceive pottage, but doctrinal things not yet conjoined with good, thus an inordinated mass of them.
This shows the nature and quality of the angelic thought and perception, and how remote it is from the thought and perception of a person. If a person thought in like manner when he is in a holy state, as when he attends the Holy Supper, and instead of bread perceived love to the Lord, and instead of wine love toward the neighbor, he would be in thought and perception like that of the angels, who would then approach nearer to him, till at last they could consociate their thoughts, but only so far as the person was at the same time in good.
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