AE 453 - numbering

AE 453
. . . no person and no angel knows
the quality of good and truth with another
in every series and connection,
but only something of it that is apparent in externals;
and yet every quality is of infinite extension,
for it joins and associates itself with innumerable things
that lie concealed within, and that abide without,
and that spread out in every direction.
All this no one sees but the Lord alone;
therefore it is the Lord alone by whom all are arranged
and disposed according to their quality,
for He sees the quality of everyone,
thus what his nature is and what will happen to him to eternity,
since the Lord's sight which is called
omniscience, foresight, and providence, is eternal.
This is why no one except the Lord alone
knows the quality of good and truth with anyone.

[5] "To number" and "to be numbered" have a different
signification in the spiritual sense of the Word
from that which they have in the letter or its natural sense,
as is evident from the fact that with angels in heaven,
numbers and measures have no place in their spiritual idea,
that is, they do not think from numbering or measuring,
but from the quality of a thing;
but this thought of theirs falls into numbers and measures
when it comes down therefrom into the natural sphere;
and yet the Word is written equally for angels as for people,
consequently angels, in numbers and numbering in the Word,
perceive the quality of the thing treated of,
while people understand numbers and numbering.