10521. In that sense the Lord's body or flesh is the good of love, as is the bread, and the Lord's blood is the good of faith, as is the wine; and the eating is making them one's own and being joined [to heaven and the Lord]. The angels who are present with a person attending the sacrament of the Holy Supper perceive these things in no other way, since everything is understood by them on a spiritual level. This is why holy feelings belonging to love and holy thoughts belonging to faith pass at this time from the angels to that person, and so by way of heaven from the Lord; and the result is that they are joined together.