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)

5619. About the Jews in the other life and about the Hebrew Language and its correspondences

The Jews lived in the Christian world because they have the Word and because they knew about the Messiah. They lived a little to the left, in parallel with the sole of the foot and below, and there was an enormous multitude. Those who were there worshiped Moses and Abraham and others in the Word. Moses appears to them when they do something evil, with staff in hand, and frightens them and admonishes them. A particular angel in heaven appears in such guise, and they persuade themselves that he is Moses. I know many things about Abraham but it is not yet time to publish these.

[2] They read the Word in the original language, and from their mental images arising from that language itself, the heavenly [angels] take heavenly things that are in the Word, for there is a correspondence of that language, as to its syllables, with heavenly forms spoken of in other places [4671, 5578, 5580]

A little before Babylon was destroyed, those from the Christian world also were thrown out there, and in indeed to the northern region far away there, where they wander alone and are in a miserable state there. Nevertheless they are held back from their inner elements, which are filthy, and [they carry on existence] in their outer ones, in which they can be active with their inner elements closed off more so than other people's. The Lord foretold this in Matthew, that they were tolerated up to this point in time on account of the Word, through which there could be some communication with heaven. The evil among them are in a certain desert which is called the desert of thieves, also in the northern quarter.