2397. Then it also explains why if people on earth merely scan with their eyes a volume they have written, only rapidly without reading, angels at once know whatever it contains and what the person's ideas had been in every detail. Consequently, if the person should read just one line, even if the words had been written many years before, they would know what his or her thoughts had been, where they had come from, what thoughts preceded them, and what followed-and this at a single glance. 1748, 23 June.