22. The new spirits asked, 'How can these be called the abomination of desolation?' The angels replied, 'They are all in falsities as regards faith and in evils as regards life. The interiors of their minds are hellish, the exteriors are made to look heavenly by a pretence of morality. For they are sycophants and hypocrites. And because they occupy the middle space between the heavens where the angels are and the earth where men are, no Divine Truth can pass from the Lord through the heavens to men upon earth, without first being received by these people, and as it is received being turned upside down and falsified; just as light falling on a dark cloud, and the sun's heat upon a marsh.