is Divine truth
united to Divine good (see n. 126-140). To the extent that angels are
receptions of this truth they are powers.{1} Moreover each one is his
own truth and his own good because each one is such as his
understanding and will are. The understanding pertains to truth
because everything of it is from truths, and the will pertains to
good because everything of it is from goods; for whatever any one
understands he calls truth, and whatever he wills he calls good. From
this it is that everyone is his own truth and his own good.{2}
Therefore so far as an angel is truth from the Divine and good from
the Divine he is a power, because to that extent the Lord is in him.
And as no one's good and truth are wholly like or the same as
another's, since in heaven, as in the world, there is endless variety
(n. 20), so the power of one angel is not like the power of another.
Those who constitute the arms in the Greatest Man, or heaven, have
the greatest power because such are more in truths than others, and
into their truths good flows from the entire heaven. Moreover, the
power of the whole man passes into the arms, and by means of these
the whole body exercises its powers. It is for this reason that in
the Word "arms" and "hand" signify powers.{3} Sometimes on this
account a naked arm is seen in heaven so powerful as to be able to
break in pieces everything in its way, even though it were a great
rock on the earth. Once it was moved towards me, and I perceived that
it was able to crush my bones to atoms.

{Footnote 1} Angels are called powers and are powers from their
reception of Divine truth from the Lord (n. 9639). Angels are
recipients of Divine truth from the Lord and on this account
are sometimes called "gods" in the Word (n. 4295, 4402, 7268,
7873, 8192, 8301, 9160).

{Footnote 2} A man or an angel is his own good and his own
truth, thus his own love and his own faith (n. 10298, 10367).
He is his own understanding and his own will, for everything of
life is there from; the life of good is from the will, and the
life of truth is from the understanding (n. 10076, 10177,
10264, 10284).

{Footnote 3} The correspondence of the hands, arms, and
shoulders, with the Greatest man or heaven (n. 4931-4937). In
the Word, "arms" and hands signify power (n. 878, 3091, 4932,
4933, 6947, 10019).

232. It has been shown above (n. 137) that the Divine truth that goes
forth from the Lord has all