AC 3892 & 3895 - the celestial compared to the persuasive

AC 3892
...the most ancient people, who were celestial people,
and above all other people were in love to the Lord,
that they had not external respiration such as their posterity (us) had,
but internal;
but that they respired with the angels,
with whom they were in fellowship because they were in celestial love.
I was further informed that their states of respiration were altogether
according to their states of love and of the derivative faith.

AC 3895 [2]
The persuasion of truth when a person is in the life of evil
is of such a nature that he persuades himself that truth is truth,
not for the sake of good as the end,
but for the sake of evil as the end,
namely, that he may thereby gain honors, reputation, and wealth.
The very worst of all are able to be in such a persuasion,
and also in apparent zeal,
to such a degree as to condemn to hell all who are not in truth,
however much these may be in good.
When such persons first come into the other life,
they believe themselves to be angels;
but they cannot approach any angelic society;
being as it were suffocated by their own persuasion
as soon as they come near it.