The speech of the celestial angels abounds in the vowels A (ah, as in father), and U (as u in rule). One may often determine from the Hebrew vowels in a passage which words belong to the class of celestials and which to the spirituals — i.e., whether they involve good or truth. The former use more frequently the sounds of O and U, for they have a full tone, and also occur oftener in the Third Heaven. (Heaven and Hell 241; True Christian Religion 278;, Spiritual Experiences 5112, 5620, 5787)

5111. That the evil can be purged in this way, and as a result their inner regions be closed, is because as a result they thus turn themselves to their own loves. Wherever they turn themselves, their loves are before them there where they are, however far they roam. They cannot be turned in a different direction except by the Lord alone, and by this return to their earlier state, which it has been granted me to see several times. Nevertheless, they are let back into their own state, and they relapse into it of themselves because they love the things that belong to their state, and they keep on both tending and inclining toward them.

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