The speech of the celestial angels abounds in the vowels A (ah, as in father), and U (as u in rule). One may often determine from the Hebrew vowels in a passage which words belong to the class of celestials and which to the spirituals — i.e., whether they involve good or truth. The former use more frequently the sounds of O and U, for they have a full tone, and also occur oftener in the Third Heaven. (Heaven and Hell 241; True Christian Religion 278;, Spiritual Experiences 5112, 5620, 5787)

5786. About those cast down from the heavens, Babylon

About the prior heaven

For a long time the process of casting down from heaven went on, and it went on to the tens of thousands. All those were cast down who were driven by self-love. They were examined as follows: they were directed toward lower regions, then they wanted to lead all whom they saw; for in the other life it happens in a different way than in the world, for thoughts are communicated there, and one [spirit] leads another by means of thoughts in a marvelous way. They can deprive him of his own thoughts and bring in their own, and in this way put themselves in him and in this way make him go wherever they desire. They can also bring in various things and compel him to think such things and will such things as are entirely alien to him. All those who are driven by self-love want nothing else than to climb up to higher places and look down on those they encounter, and thus attack them. They never make themselves subjects of the Lord. They believe they do everything of themselves and nothing from the Divine. When they contemplate anyone who worships the Lord, they become virtually insane and try to annihilate him more than others. They cannot bear his aura. All such who have been turned to me have become like this, and they hate everything.

[5786] 1.2. that has been written about the Lord. Eventually also those were cast down who did not acknowledge the Lord as God, but acknowledged the Father. Their aura with me was noticeable. All those who do not worship any God, who are from the Christian world and do not care about living properly but only for their reputation, do not know what it is to be led by the Lord, because they have no mental picture of God the Father;

[5786] 1.3. those also were cast down. They sometimes stop moving and act among themselves. Some from cunning know many things about how to injure others in this way: they cast them into swamps, out of carriages, they bring on darkness and through fantasies lead them in byways and streets and so forth, so that they go astray, in order that at the end they may come into some cavern or hell, and so on. I have seen some take the breath out of another, and as a result he lay as if dead. They also inflict pains, anxieties, and fears, in this way exercising control over others. To do this they go up on mountains and rocks so that they may have a wide view of those below and so attack them. Their cities are for the most part at the sides of the mountains or rocks. From there those who are gathered into a society go out and do as said. These actions are their pleasures, because controlling and harming others is their inmost joy since those who have a love of themselves do not love but hate the neighbor. This appears clearly in the other life because there they act in accord with their inner feelings. Some who are like this speak with the evil below and know how to tie the minds of others to themselves so that they cannot be loosed. As a result there were partnerships of those like this with the hells, on which account they were cast down. There were those like this in the cities who were in league with evil [spirits]. But the ones like this are for the most part recognized then, because the evil have them in league with themselves, which is manifest to others. ##