SD 5642 - in God we live, move and are

SD 5642
. . . (a person) believes he lives from himself;
and, by reason of his understanding of truth and will of good,
that he believes he understands truth and wills good
from himself;
because it entirely appears so.
Those appearances are so real,
that the spirits are altogether unaware . . .
and the angels of heaven know, indeed,
but do not talk about it.
This is of the Lord's Divine Providence,
in order that everyone may seem to himself
to live and act from himself.

. . . Spirits and angels are, indeed, actual forms;
but they have nothing of life from themselves.
They are led by the Lord according to [their] life;
for in God we live, move, and are.
These forms are recipients of the Divine:
and, in whatever manner they receive,
just such they are.
Because those forms are the forms of interior nature,
or are in the spiritual world,
they are adapted to all the changes and variations of state,
and this to an immense and incredible extent,
and in greater extent according as they are in interiors
to what extent and of what kind, there, is incredible.