20), so the power of one angel is not like the power of another.
Those who constitute the arms in the Greatest Man, or heaven, have
the greatest power because such are more in truths than others, and
into their truths good flows from the entire heaven. Moreover, the
power of the whole man passes into the arms, and by means of these
the whole body exercises its powers. It is for this reason that in
the Word "arms" and "hand" signify powers.{3} Sometimes on this
account a naked arm is seen in heaven so powerful as to be able to
break in pieces everything in its way, even though it were a great
rock on the earth. Once it was moved towards me, and I perceived that
it was able to crush my bones to atoms.
{Footnote 1} Angels are called powers and are powers from their
reception of Divine truth from the Lord (n. 9639). Angels are
recipients of Divine truth from the Lord and on this account
are sometimes called "gods" in the Word (n. 4295, 4402, 7268,
7873, 8192, 8301, 9160).
{Footnote 2} A man or an angel is his own good and his own
truth, thus his own love and his own faith (n. 10298, 10367).
He is his own understanding and his own will, for everything of
life is there from; the life of good is from the will, and the
life of truth is from the understanding (n.
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