Angels in the higher region of the spiritual kingdom have a Word so written that the intelligent can understand it in a continually more intelligent way, while the simple understand it in simplicity. It is a Word in which a more and more interior intelligence appears written. This circumstance is achieved by the use of various diacritical marks above the letters, the diacritical marks signifying affections. These diacritical marks in series express constantly more interior degrees of intelligence to the eyes of the more intelligent. I have seen something of this Word.

I have also seen something of the Word in the celestial kingdom. It has still more secrets indicated in it, but this by various curvatures and swirls above and within letters that are peculiar to the celestial kingdom. These secrets are of surpassing excellence. Nor can they be understood or even contemplated by an angel of the spiritual kingdom. Spiritual angels have therefore been told that they cannot approach the wisdom of angels of the celestial kingdom, even as those in a natural domain cannot approach the intelligence of angels of the spiritual kingdom. This intelligence completely transcends them, as I have discovered again and again.

I have had it proven to me from experience that the intelligence of angels of the spiritual kingdom is indescribable and incomprehensible to those in the natural kingdom, and that the wisdom of angels of the celestial kingdom is incomprehensible and indescribable to those in the spiritual kingdom.

But as regards the Lord's Divine wisdom, this so transcends all other wisdom that there is no relation. For all the intelligence and wisdom of angels is finite, while the Lord's Divine wisdom is infinite, and there is no proportional relation between the finite and the infinite. The intelligence and wisdom of angels is finite because angels are recipients, and all recipient things are created, thus finite. * The remaining numbers, 20-26, were written later, partly in the form of notes. See Translator's Remarks.