1214. CONCERNING THE MORE INTERIOR [ANGELS] The angels of the interior heaven do not have such a [strong] belief that each and all things exist and are provided by the Lord, and therefore they admit that there is chance; but the angels of the more interior heaven do not admit any chance, but believe that each and all things even to the least are provided by the Lord, and thus that the series of contingencies is Providence. They consequently believe that so few things exist from man's prudence that they are as it were of no account, or like a few grains of fine black dust in a clear sky. The angels of the interior heaven also perceive this and believe it intellectually, especially from principles, but still it is not the ordinary state of their understanding because they have natural things conjoined with spiritual. Therefore when the natural things prevail, they are as it were withdrawn from faith in more interior things; but when their natural is as a servant, then it is the spiritual that shines forth and confirms that a thing is true.