DLW 130
Angels turn their faces continually
to the Lord as the sun
for the reason that angels are in the Lord
and have the Lord in them,
and the Lord inwardly guides
their affections and thoughts
and turns them continually to Him.
Therefore they cannot but look to the east
where the Lord as the sun appears.
From this it is apparent
that it is not the angels
who turn themselves to the Lord,
but that it is the Lord who turns them to Him.
Actually, when angels think
more interiorly of the Lord,
they do not think of Him then
as being other than in them.
Interior thought does not itself
produce an appearance of distance,
but exterior thought does,
thought which is bound up with the vision of the eyes.
That is because exterior thought is caught up in space,
unlike interior thought;
and even when it is not caught up in space,
as in the spiritual world,
still it is caught up in the appearance of space.
But
this can be little understood by anyone
who thinks of God in terms of space.
For God is present everywhere,
and yet does not exist in space.
Thus He is both within and around an angel,
and therefore an angel can see God,
that is to say, the Lord,
both within and around him -
within him when he thinks
in accord with love and wisdom,
and around him
when he thinks about love and wisdom.
DLW 134
. . . all phenomena that occur in the natural world
are effects,
and all phenomena that occur in the spiritual world
are the causes of those effects.
One does not find anything natural
that does not have its cause from something spiritual.
DLW 137
. . . because an angel turns his face and body
to the Lord as the sun,
all the interior elements of his mind and body
are turned in that direction too.
The case is the same with a person
if he continually has the Lord before his eyes,
which he does if he is in a state of love and wisdom.
He then beholds the Lord
not only with his eyes and face,
but with his whole mind and heart as well;
that is, he regards Him
with all the constituents of his will and intellect,
and at the same time
with all the constituents of his body.
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