But suddenly a doubt arose, which, I noticed, also slipped into the inward heaven, for heaven was suddenly closed, because the doubt had touched some of them. It was this: since their inward parts are not defiled by hereditary and self-acquired evil, but only the regions of their earthly mind, it therefore appeared at first sight that because their inward parts were not defiled, they were thus without vice, or they were pure and holy. Some of them pondered on this doubt. But later it vanished, because the fact is, angels cannot possibly be in the inward heaven, nor in the very inward, nor in the innermost one, without at the same time being [rooted] in their earthly mind, which pertains to the angels of the inward heaven. The earthly mind cannot be put off, for thus they would lack that which completes order, and they would no longer be angels. Therefore, the defilement gotten hereditarily and that acquired by one's actions, pertaining to the earthly mind, must interact harmoniously with the qualities that are more inward, even as the more inward qualities must with the innermost, and without interaction there can be no holiness. So that is the interaction that is given by the Lord, which is an ability