213. As for love and wisdom, love is the purpose, wisdom the means, and service the result. Further, service is the composite, vessel, and foundation of wisdom and love, such a composite and such a vessel that every bit of love and every bit of wisdom is actively present in it. It is their total presence. We need to be absolutely clear, though, that in keeping with what was presented in 189-194 above, what are present in service are all the elements of love and wisdom that are of the same kind, harmonious.

4413. The fact that the light of heaven holds intelligence and wisdom within it, and the Lord's gift of intelligence, which essentially is truth, and of wisdom, which essentially is good, are seen by angels' eyes as light, I have been given to know through actual experience. I was raised up into light which was flashing like the sparkling light of diamonds. While I was kept in this light it seemed to me that I was taken away from bodily ideas to spiritual ones, and so to matters belonging to an intelligent understanding of what was true and good. Ideas present in my thinking which had been formed in the light of the world seemed at that time to have been removed from me and so to speak no longer belonged to me, although they were vaguely present. From this I was given to know that insofar as a person enters the light of heaven he enters intelligence. This explains why the more intelligent the angels are, the greater and brighter is the light in which they dwell.