not
first in memory and thought, as the spiritual angels do. Consequently
they have Divine truths written in their hearts, and they perceive
them, and as it were see them, in themselves; nor do they ever reason
about them whether they are true or not.{2} They are such as are
described in Jeremiah:

I will put my law in their mind, and will write it in
their heart. They shall teach no more everyone his friend
and everyone his brother, saying, Know ye Jehovah. They
shall know Me, from the least of them even to the greatest
of them (31:33, 34).

And they are called in Isaiah:

Taught of Jehovah (54:13).

That the "taught of Jehovah" are those who are taught by the Lord He
Himself teaches in John (6:45, 46).

{Footnote 1} The celestial angels immeasurably surpass in
wisdom the spiritual angels (n. 2718, 9995). The nature of the
distinction between celestial angels and spiritual angels (n.
2088, 2669, 2708, 2715, 3235, 3240, 4788, 7068, 8521, 9277,
10295).

{Footnote 2} The celestial angels do not reason about truths of
faith, because they perceive them in themselves; but the
spiritual angels reason about them whether they are true or not
(n. 202, 337, 597, 607, 784, 1121, 1384, 1898, 1919, 3246,
4448, 7680, 7877, 8780, 9277, 10786).

26. It has been said that these angels have wisdom and glory above
others for the reason that they have received and continue to receive
Divine truths at once in their life. For as soon as they hear Divine
truths, they will and do them, instead of storing them up in the
memory and afterwards considering whether they are true. They know at
once by influx from the Lord whether the truth they hear is true; for
the Lord flows directly into man's willing, but mediately through his
willing into his thinking. Or what is the same, the Lord flows
directly into good, but mediately through good into truth.{1} That is
called good which belongs to the will and action therefrom, while
that is called truth that belongs to the memory and to the thought
therefrom. Moreover, every truth is turned into good and implanted in
love as soon as it enters into the will; but so long as truth remains
in the memory and in the thought therefrom it does not become good,
nor does it live, nor is it appropriated to man, since man is a man
from his will and understanding therefrom, and not from his
understanding separated from his will.{2}

{Footnote 1} The Lor