{Footnote 1} There is spiritual or angelic speech belonging to
man, though he does not know it (n. 4104). The ideas of the
internal man are spiritual, but during his life in the world
man perceives them naturally, because he then thinks in what is
natural (n. 10236, 10237, 10551). Man comes after death into
his interior ideas (n. 3226, 3342, 3343, 10568, 10604). Those
ideas then form his speech (n. 2470-2479).
244. In heaven, as has been said above, all have one speech; but it
is varied in this respect, that the speech of the wise is more
interior and more full of variations of affections and ideas of
thought, while the speech of the less wise is more external and less
full; and the speech of the simple is still more external, consisting
of words from which the meaning is to be gathered in the same way as
when men are talking to one another. There is also speech by the
face, terminating in something sonorous modified by ideas. Again,
there is speech in which heavenly representatives are mingled with
the ideas, and go forth from ideas to sight. There is also speech by
gestures that correspond to affections, and represent things like
those expressed by their words.
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