186. Whether angels know what is now taking place in the world I am unable to affirm, for that which comes to the angels through spirits is so changed that it is not at all the same. This no doubt happens lest the angels should be disturbed in their heavenly joys; for there is a correspondence of all things, which can be turned into delights by means of various correspondences, God Messiah thus directing each and all things. Indeed, out of the exceedingly confused and disturbed imaginations of man in particular, and of very many together, the most distinct representations of delight can as it were be derived. This can also be confirmed by experience, for when the mind inheres in delights in general, then every object is turned into a species of that delight. 1747, Aug. 28, o.s.