25. The angels in the Lord's celestial kingdom, because of their more interior reception of the Divine of the Lord, far excel in wisdom and glory the angels who are in His spiritual kingdom for they are in love to the Lord and consequently are nearer and more closely conjoined to Him.# These angels are such because they have received and continue to receive Divine truths at once in their life, and not in previous memory and thought, as do the spiritual angels. So they have Divine truths written in their hearts, and they perceive them, and, as it were, see them in themselves, nor do they ever reason about them, whether they are true or not.## They are such as are described in Jeremiah:
I will put my law in their mind and will write it in their heart. They shall teach no more every one his friend and every one his brother, saying, "Know Jehovah". They shall know Me, from the least of them even to the greatest of them. Jer. xxxi. 33, 34.
And they are called in Isaiah,
Taught of Jehovah. Isa. liv. 13.
That the "taught of Jehovah" are those who are taught by the Lord, He Himself teaches in John vi. 45, 46. # The celestial angels are incomparably wiser than the spiritual angels (n. 2718, 9995). What is the distinction between the celestial angels and the spiritual angels (n. 2088, 2669, 2708, 2715, 3235, 3240, 4788, 7068, 8521, 9277, 10295). ## The celestial angels do not reason concerning the truths of faith, because they perceive them in themselves; but the spiritual angels reason concerning them whether it is so or not so (n. 202, 337, 597, 607, 784, 1121, 1348, 1398, 1919, 3246, 4448, 7680, 7877, 8780, 9277, 10786).
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