To be intelligent, is not that to Know, to Wish, and to Will,--the three attributes of the Angelic Spirit?
'If the universe has a meaning,' Monsieur Saint-Martin said to me when I met him during a journey which he made in Sweden, 'surely this is the one most worthy of God.' "But, Monsieur," continued the pastor after a thoughtful pause, "of what avail to you are these shreds of thoughts taken here and there from the vast extent of a work of which no true idea can be given except by comparing it to a river of light, to billows of flame?
When a man plunges into it he is carried away as by an awful current.

Dante's poem seems but a speck to the reader submerged in the almost Biblical verses with which Swedenborg renders palpable the Celestial Worlds, as Beethoven built his palaces of harmony with thousands of notes, as architects have reared cathedrals with millions of stones.

We roll in soundless depths, where our minds will not always sustain us.

Ah, surely a great and powerful intellect is needed to bring us back, safe and sound, to our own social beliefs.
"Swedenborg," resumed the pastor, "was particularly attached to the Baron de Seraphitz, whose name, according to an old Swedish custom, had taken from time immemorial the Latin termination of 'us.' The baron was an ardent disciple of the Swedish prophet, who had opened the eyes of his Inner-Man and brought him to a life in conformity with the decrees from On-High.

He sought for an Angelic Spirit among women; Swedenborg found her for him in a vision.