Destruction was effected after visitation, for visitation always precedes.

The end of creation is that all things may return to the Creator and be united with Him.

First of all it must be known who the God of heaven is, since upon that all the other things depend.

The inner self is as distinct from the outer self as heaven is from earth.

There are angels that receive more interiorly the Divine that goes forth from the Lord, and others that receive it less interiorly; the former are called celestial angels, and the latter spiritual angels

So far as the Angels are recipients of that spiritual heat and light they are loves and wisdoms, not loves and wisdoms for themselves, but from the Lord.

I have seen a thousand times that Angels are human form, or men, for I have conversed with them as man to man, sometimes with one alone, sometimes with many in company.