The earth is the nursery-ground of heaven.

The Angels are therefore not Angels as such ('Angelic Wisdom,' 57), they are transformed through their close conjunction with God; which conjunction God never refuses, because the essence of God is not negative, but essentially active.

The spiritual angels pass through three natures of love, because man is only regenerated through successive stages ('True Religion').

First, the _love of self_: the supreme expression of this love is human genius, whose works are worshipped.

Next, _love of life_: this love produces prophets,--great men whom the world accepts as guides and proclaims to be divine.