243.  Speech like that in the spiritual world is inherent in every man in his interior intellectual part; but man does not know this, because this speech does not with man, as with angels, fall into words analogous to affection; nevertheless this is what causes man, when he enters the other life, to come into the same speech as spirits and angels, and thus to know how to speak without instruction.{1} But more on this subject hereafter.

{Footnote 1} There is spiritual or angelic speech belonging to man, though he does not know it (n. 4104).  The ideas of the internal man are spiritual, but during his life in the world man perceives them naturally, because he then thinks in what is natural (n. 10236, 10237, 10551).  Man comes after death into his interior ideas (n. 3226, 3342, 3343, 10568, 10604).  Those ideas then form his speech (n. 2470-2479).

244.  In heaven, as has been said above, all have one speech; but it is varied in this respect, that the speech of the wise is more interior and more full of variations of affections and ideas of thought, while the speech of the less wise is more external and less full; and the speech of the simple is still more external, consisting of words from which the meaning is to be gathered in the same way as when men are talking to one another.  There is also speech by the face, terminating in something sonorous modified by ideas.  Again, there is speech in which heavenly representatives are mingled with the ideas, and go forth from ideas to sight.  There is also speech by gestures that correspond to affections, and represent things like those expressed by their words.  There is speech by means of the generals of affections and the generals of thoughts.  There is speech like thunder; besides other kinds.

245.  The speech of evil and infernal spirits is likewise natural to them because it is from affections; but it is from evil affections and consequent filthy ideas, to which angels are utterly averse.  Thus the modes of speaking in hell are opposite to those of heaven; and in consequence evil spirits cannot endure angelic speech, and angels cannot endure infernal speech.  To the angels infernal speech is like a bad odor striking the nostrils.  The speech of hypocrites, who are such as are able to feign themselves angels of light, resembles in respect to words the speech of angels, but in respect to affections and consequent ideas of thought it is the direct opposite.  Consequently, when the inner nature of their speech is perceived as wise angels perceive it, it is heard as the gnashing of teeth, and strikes with horror.

246.  XXVIII.  The speech of angels with man.