1323. Besides this, it was shown that the whole of heaven nevertheless seems to exercise judgment, both the heaven of spirits and that of angels. Some do so by way of duty, in accordance with the provinces of the body [assigned to them]. Some do so for the reason that they want or do not want to admit spirits into their company, so they either select or turn away from their companionship. So everyone judges regarding their own society, letting in or rejecting a person. The heaven of angels likewise judges about the qualities of religious faith symbolized by the 12 tribes, and 12 thrones and disciples. For the angels of the threefold heaven also love to take in those of the faith into their societies-or they do not take them in, and so they judge. Yet they do not judge at all, but the Lord Alone, Who arranges things as a whole and in the least details to turn out as they do, the angels not knowing otherwise but that it is they who are thus giving consent and granting admission, for it does take place by consent. This, then, is what is meant by the 12 thrones, and the 12 tribes, and the 12 apostles, not that it is they who would judge, which is completely false.