Today I was allowed by the Mercy of God the Messiah to learn by actual experience that the ideas of truth and goodness in our understanding, individually, actually come forth from - and indeed one after the other - and consist of, a multitude of the mental images of those who are [called] angels of understanding. So there is a configuration of harmonizing ones when truth flows in, and of disharmonious ones when any confusion arises. The intermediate stages, from agreement to disagreement, are immeasurably numerous. These shapes are composed by God the Messiah Alone, entirely according to the spiritual condition a person has come into. Therefore, not even the least, or any element of human thought about religious truths and goodness originates from us. Rather, when anyone is allowed for a short time to have something flow in from what is in their memory, then this instantly disturbs and confuses the mental image, like it does when spirits are permitted to argue about something, etc. etc. [see 157]. 1747, 23 August (old calendar). That constant disagreement was wearying my mind; while agreement makes it vigorous and lively - something I have experienced several times before.