188. CONCERNING ANGELS AND SPIRITS IN GENERAL Angels are distinguished from spirits primarily in this respect, that spirits bend all things that are thought and which exist into evil, whereas angels turn each and all things into good. There are also intermediate spirits who are almost solely intellectual. It is through these, for the most part, that there is a communication of the phantasies of spirits with the most delightful ideas of the angels, but this is by means of angelic intellectual spirits; for there are two kinds of intellectual spirits. The good are distinguished from the evil only by faith. 1747, Aug. 28, o.s.