223. The declarations of angels on this subject are as follows: There is nothing so infinitesimal, they say, as not to have in it degrees of both kinds. Not the least constituent in any animal, for example, not the least constituent in any plant, nor the least constituent in any mineral, and not the least constituent in the ether and air. Moreover, because the ether and air are vehicles of heat and light, there is not the least constituent of these that does not have in it degrees of both kinds; and because spiritual heat and spiritual light are vehicles of love and wisdom, there is not the least constituent of these either that does not have in it both such degrees. [2] I have it from the declarations of angels also that the least element of affection, and the least element of thought-indeed, the least element of any idea in the thought-consists of degrees of both kinds, and that any least element which does not consist of these does not actually exist. For it has no form, thus no quality, neither any state which can be changed and varied and so come into being. [3] Angels confirm this by the following truth, that the infinite elements in God the Creator, who is the Lord from eternity, are, in a distinct combination, one; that there are infinite elements in His infinite elements; and that in the infinitely infinite elements are degrees of both kinds, degrees which in Him are also in a distinct combination one. Moreover, because He has these elements in Him, and all things were created by Him, and what He has created exhibits in some image of them the elements that are in Him, it follows that there is not the least finite form which does not have in it such degrees. These degrees exist alike in the least and greatest of created things for the reason that the Divine in the greatest and least of things is the same. That the infinite elements in the human God are, in a distinct combination, one, may be seen above in nos. 17-22, and that the Divine in the greatest and least of things is the same, in nos. 77-82, points which were further illustrated in nos. 155, 169, and 171.