AC 2479-2493 (portions of) - thoughts and memories

AC 2479
. . . insofar as the mind can be withdrawn from sensuous or corporeal things,
so far is it elevated to spiritual and heavenly things.

AC 2488
. . . the spirits with a person know and take note of
the smallest things of his memory and thoughts;
and this much more clearly than the person himself;
and the angels know and take note of the ends themselves,
how they bend themselves from good to evil,
and from evil to good;
and of many more things than the person knows . . .
Let no person therefore any longer believe that his thoughts are hidden,
and that he is not to render an account of his thoughts
and of his deeds according to the degree and the quality
of the thoughts that have been in them;
for the deeds have their quality from the thoughts,
and the thoughts from the ends.

AC 2490
. . . they who are in the faith of truth and the affection of good
retain all things which are true and good,
and are thereby being continually perfected.
Consequently it is that they can be instructed,
and that they are instructed in the other life.

AC 2492
For the exterior memory is the ultimate of order,
in which spiritual and heavenly things are softly terminated and reside
when there are goods and truths therein.

AC 2493
. . . the more interior and perfect the angels are,
the less do they care for past things,
and the less do they think of things to come;
and also that from this comes their happiness.
They say that the Lord gives them every moment what to think,
and this with blessedness and happiness;
and that they are thus free from cares and anxieties.
Also, that this was meant in the internal sense
by the manna being received daily from heaven;
and by the daily bread in the Lord's Prayer;
and likewise by the instruction
not to be solicitous about what they should eat and drink,
and wherewithal they should be clothed.
But although the angels do not care for past things,
and are not solicitous about things to come,
they nevertheless have the most perfect recollection of past things,
and the most perfect mental view of things to come;
because in all their present there are both the past and the future.
Thus they have a more perfect memory
than can ever be thought of or expressed.