8631. How clearly the spirits from Jupiter perceive spiritual realities has been demonstrated to me by their representation of the way in which the Lord, whom they call their one and only Lord, turns wicked affections into good ones. They represented the mind or understanding as a beautiful form and imparted to it the activity of an outward form just right for an inner affection. Then they showed the way in which the Lord bends something wicked there into something good. Words cannot describe the way in which they did this; it was done so skillfully that the angels applauded them. Some learned persons from our planet were present at the time; they were those who had saturated their minds with technical terms, and had engaged in many arguments about form, substance, the material and the non-material, and similar terms, but had not applied them to any useful purpose. These spirits could not begin to comprehend that representation.