"Personal things" are the words of each language, they are the names of men, of cities and the like, in the Word of the Lord. Because these are extremely limited and therefore not at all compatible with their mental imagery, they can never be raised up into the heavens, but only the things they symbolize. Nor is the speech of angels one of words, of names, and such, which are personal specifics, and it is not understandable even to spirits, because it contains only the realities that are wrapped up in the speech of words. And the angels could not understand me speaking, except through intermediate spirits, by whom the mental images of personal specifics were transformed into universal images of the things symbolized. Neither do the angels have that kind of memory, that is, a memory of physical and