2214. This is how the mental images of angels' thoughts compare to those of human thoughts, for they are component parts, the nature of which cannot possibly be grasped unless the Lord reveals it to the person. Just as no one can know which and what kind of components are in that little body [2211], which taken together constitute the whole little animal. So human mental imagery is a complex of components we have no knowledge of at all, because they are dissimilar.