2471. I spoke of these matters with the angels also through the spirits closest by, who said that they wanted to be like this, because then they can enjoy happiness, and I was prompted to tell them that they cannot be this kind of vessels unless they have truth. (Truths are all things down to the very least pertaining to faith, thus very far removed from fallacies and from falsities coming from fallacy or any other source.) For truth cannot dwell in a vessel made of falsities, but must by all means be in its own vessel, that is, in truth. This was so translucently seen by a spiritual mental image that they could say absolutely nothing against it. 1748, 1 July. The spirits around me, too, were enabled to see that it is so, and that truth cannot possibly be in any but its own vessel, and then that it is the Lord's vessel. 1748, 1 July.