6623. Since details so countless are present within the ideas that go to make up thought, the angels can know solely from a single spoken word produced by thought what a spirit or else man is really like. This too has been proved to me by means of an experience. When simply the word truth was uttered, which was done by quite a number of spirits one after another, I heard instantly whether it was hard, rough, soft, childlike, dear, innocent, full or empty, stained with falsity, pretentious, closed, or open, and in what degree these things were present within it. In short, I heard the actual character of the idea, yet only its general character. So what do angels hear who perceive the specific details of the idea?