ngs does not enter into their memory, but enters directly into
their perception and will, and comes to be a matter of life; but what
they see with their eyes enters into their memory, and they reason
and talk about it; which shows that with them the way of hearing is
the way of wisdom. This, too, is from correspondence, for the ear
corresponds to obedience, and obedience belongs to the life; while
the eye corresponds to intelligence, and intelligence is a matter of
doctrine.{1} The state of these angels is described in different
parts of the Word, as in Jeremiah:

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

And in Matthew,

Let your speech be Yea, yea, Nay, nay; what is more than
these is from evil (5:37).

"What is more than these is from evil" because it is not from the
Lord; and inasmuch as the angels of the third heaven are in love to
the Lord the truths that are in them are from the Lord. In that
heaven love to the Lord is willing and doing Divine truth, for Divine
truth is the Lord in heaven.

{Footnote 1} Of the correspondence of the ear and of hearing
(n. 4652-4660). The ear corresponds to and therefore signifies
perception and obedience (n. 2542, 3869, 4653, 5017, 7216,
8361, 9311, 9397, 10061). The ear signifies the reception of
truths (n. 5471, 5475, 9926). The correspondence of the eye and
its sight (n. 4403-4421, 4523-4534); from which the sight of
the eye signifies the intelligence that belongs to faith, and
also faith (n. 2701, 4410, 4526, 6923 9051, 10569).

272. There is a still further reason, and this is in heaven the
primary reason, why the angels are able to receive so great wisdom,
namely, that they are without the love of self; for to the extent
that any one is without the love of self he can become wise in Divine
things. It is that love that closes up the interiors against the Lord
and heaven, and opens the exteriors and turns them toward itself; and
in consequence all in whom that love rules are in thick darkness in
respect to the things of heaven, however much light they may have in
worldly matters. The angels, on the other hand, are in the light of
wisdom because they are without the love of self, for the heavenly
loves in whi