is the life of unselfish love, and perceive and acknowledge that it is the Lord's life and not their own, they are blessed; for they are all images and likenesses of Him, though in different degrees according to reception. No one can enter heaven, or remain there, unless he has something of heaven in himself; for the essence of heaven is within the soul. (See Luke xvii. 21.) Those in the highest states (for the states of the angels are infinitely various) love others even better than themselves; and their wisdom is equal to their love, being so superior to the wisdom of men, as scarcely to admit of comparison. They take the highest delight in communicating to each other all the good things they receive from the Lord, for such is the nature of true love; and the more they give, the more are their souls opened to the influx of like things from the Lord, and the greater their delight. Swedenborg says:
They are in genuine innocence—the innocence