Sunday, December 29, 2013

AC 9094 - the things the angels see

AC 9094
How the case is
with the things contained in this verse 

in the internal sense
can with difficulty be unfolded to the understanding.
They are such as can be comprehended by the angels,
and only in some measure by people.
For the angels see the arcana (secrets) of the Word
in the light which is from the Lord,
in which light innumerable things are presented to view
that do not fall into the words of speech,
and not even into the ideas of thought,
with people so long as they live in the body.

[2] Nevertheless a person comes into such wisdom
after the laying aside of the body, that is, after death;
but only the person who has received in the world
the life of faith and charity from the Lord;
for the capacity of receiving angelic wisdom
is in the good of faith and of charity.

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