AC 3404 - thinking about eternity

AC 3404 [2]
A person cannot possibly have any idea of the eternal except from time;
and this being the case,
he cannot possibly comprehend what is from eternity,
thus what the Divine was before time, or before the world was created.
And so long as there is in his thought anything of an idea from time,
if he thinks on the subject
he must necessarily fall into errors from which he cannot be extricated.
But to the angels, who are not in the idea of time, but in the idea of state,
it is given to perceive this most clearly,
for the eternal with them is not the eternal of time,
but the eternal of state without the idea of time.