About these matters the less
wise consult the more wise, and these consult the Lord and receive
answers. Their heaven, that is, their inmost joy, is to live rightly
from the Lord.
{Footnote 1} The celestial angels do not think and speak from
truths, as the spiritual angels do, because they have from the
Lord a perception of all things of truth (n. 202, 597, 607,
784, 1121, 1384, 1398, 1442, 1919, 7680, 7877, 8780, 9277,
10336). In respect to truths the celestial angels say, Yea,
yea, or Nay, nay; but the spiritual angels reason about them
whether they are true or not (n. 2715, 3246, 4448, 9166, 10786,
where the Lord's words, Let your speech be Yea, yea, Nay, nay;
what is beyond these is from evil (Matt. 5:37). are explained).
215. In the Lord's spiritual kingdom the government is called
judgment; because those in that kingdom are in spiritual good, which
is the good of charity towards the neighbor, and that good in its
essence is truth;{1} and truth pertains to judgment, as good pertains
to righteousness.{2} These, too, are led by the Lord, but mediately
(n. 208); and in consequence they have governors, few or many
according to the need of the society in which they are.
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