Destruction was effected after visitation, for visitation always precedes.

For the spiritual sense of the Word treats everywhere of the spiritual world, that is, of the state of the church in the heavens, as well as in the earth; hence the Word is spiritual and Divine.

People are unaware that spirits even exist, let alone that angels are present with them.

And as the divine that goes forth from the Lord is the good of love and the truth of faith, the angels are angels and are heaven in the measure in which they receive good and truth from the Lord.

He who is in evil, is also in the punishment of evil.

Angelic happiness is in service, from service, and according to service.

This I can declare: things that are in heaven are more real than things that are in the world.