182 "SPEECH OF THE ANGELS." 







Alwato ; wliicli Universology demonstrates in its own 

 way. Intuitions of these occult facts of science are 

 not wanting in the writings of certain inspirational 

 thinkers ; and notably with Swedenborg ; even to a 

 dogmatic affirmation of the Meanings of the different 

 Vowels, as shown in the following extracts : 



224. [" Of THE ANGELIC LANGUAGE] ; E [a] and i 

 [ee] properly belong to the Spiritual Affections," 

 Doctrine concerning the Sobered Scripture (90) ; Heaven 

 and *HeU (241.) That is to say i and e, Middle- 

 Mouth and Slender- Vowel-Sounds, being Elementary 

 (130) and the Vowels meaning Affections these 

 two Sounds, the most meagre or skeleton-like of the 

 Vowel-Sounds, and very like Consonants, mean Affec- 

 tions for Abstractions and Limit-like Tenuities, or Subtle 

 Entities, and, hence, they are u Spiritual " or Belated 

 to Intelligence (Definition) which is the characteristic 

 of Swedenborg's " Spiritual " Sphere. 



225. " The Speech of the Heavenly (or Celestial) 

 Angels [above the " Spiritual " Angels] sounds much 

 from the vowels o and u [oo.] From the expressions 

 in The Word, in the Hebrew language, it may in 

 some measure be known whether they belong to the 

 Heavenly class or the Spiritual class, thus whether 

 they involve Good or Truths; those which involve 

 Good partake much of u [oo] and o, and also some- 

 iliiiiff of A [ah] ; but those which involve Truth [In- 

 tellectual, Spiritual] partake of E [a] and I [ee.] 

 Because Affections manifest themselves chiefly by 

 Sounds [Clangs Helmholtz], therefore, also, when 

 great subjects are treated of, as heaven and God, 

 those words are preferred in human discourse which 



