294. Since these things which constitute the Sun of the spiritual world are from the Lord, but are not the Lord, therefore they are not life in itself, but are devoid of life in itself. In the same way, those things which flow forth from an angel or a man, and make spheres around him, are not the angel or the man, but are from them though devoid of their life. These spheres make one with the angel or man only in that they are in accordance because taken from the forms of their bodies, which in them were forms of their life. This is an arcanum which angels, by means of their spiritual ideas, are able to see in thought and also express in speech, but men by their natural ideas are not, since a thousand spiritual ideas make one natural idea, and one natural idea cannot be resolved by man into any spiritual idea, much less into so many. The reason is that these ideas differ according to degrees of altitude which were treated in Part III.