2399. Good spirits, however, and still more angels, are entirely different. For they are granted by the Lord the full exercise of thinking and action, and are thus not kept in bonds but are led to all goodness, and this in a way that they think they are leading themselves. Still, they know very well that it is in no way they, but the Lord Alone, who guides them and gifts them with rationality and reason, or intelligence and wisdom. 1748, 24 June.