Heaven and Hell (Harley) n. 268

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268. How great is the wisdom of angels can be confirmed from the fact that in the heavens there is a communication of all things. Intelligence and wisdom are communicated from one to another, and heaven is a communion of all goods. The reason is that heavenly love is such that it wills what is its own to be another's. Consequently, no one in heaven perceives his own good in himself to be good unless it is also in another; and this is the source of the happiness of heaven. This the angels derive from the Lord, whose Divine Love is of such a nature that there is such a communication of all things in the heavens. (It has been granted me to know by experience.) Certain simple spirits have sometimes been taken up into heaven, and when there, they entered into angelic wisdom, and then understood things that they were never before able to comprehend, and spoke things that they were unable to utter in their former state.


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