215. People do not as yet know that in any succession the final element-such as useful endeavor, action, work and practice-embraces and contains all the prior elements. It appears as though useful endeavor, action, work and practice have in them no more than what is found in motion, when in fact they have all prior elements actually present in them, and this so fully that nothing is lacking. The prior elements are contained in them like wine in its decanter or like the furnishings in a house. The prior elements are not apparent because these things are viewed only from without, and viewed from without they are simply activities and motions. The case is as when one moves one's arms and hands, unconscious of the fact that a thousand motor fibers act together to produce their every motion, and that corresponding to the thousand motor fibers are thousands of things in one's thought and affection which impel the motor fibers to action. Because these act from within, they are not apparent to any bodily sense. [2] This much is known, that no action is executed in the body or by means of it unless it springs from the will through the thought; and because it is these two that act, it cannot but be the case that each and every element of the will and thought are present in the action. They cannot be separated. So it is that from seeing a person's deeds or works others judge of the thought of his will, which they call his intention. A fact made known to me is that from simply seeing a person's deed or work, angels perceive and see every quality of the will and thought of the doer-angels of the third heaven perceiving and seeing from his will the end prompting the action, and angels of the second heaven perceiving and seeing the cause through which the end thus acts. It is because of this that works and deeds are so often commanded in the Word, and that it says a person is known by them.* * Matthew 7:16,20, 12:33. Luke 6:44.