5129. Verses 14-15 But remember me when it is well with you, and show, I beg you, mercy to me, and make mention of me to Pharaoh, and bring me out of this house. For I have indeed been taken away by theft out of the land of the Hebrews, and here also I have not done anything for which they should put me in the pit.

'But remember me' means the reception of faith. 'When it is well with you' means when a correspondence exists. 'And show, I beg you, mercy to me' means the reception of charity. 'And make mention of me to Pharaoh' means communication with the interior natural. 'And bring me out of this house' means a release from evils. 'For I have indeed been taken away by theft' means that evil caused celestial things to become alienated. 'Out of the land of the Hebrews' means from the Church. 'And here also I have not done anything' means innocence. 'For which they should put me in the pit' means a casting away among falsities.

6612. From all this it is also evident that the more external a person's thinking is, the less distance it spreads; and the more internal it is, the greater distance it spreads. For people whose thought is more external, that is, takes place on a sensory level, are in contact solely with the more obtuse spirits; but those whose thought is more internal, that is, springs from a rational level, are in contact with angels. The nature of the difference can be recognized from the closeness of the atmosphere in which sensory-minded spirits live and the freshness of the atmosphere in which the angels of heaven live. The difference between the two is like the difference between the transmission of sound and the transmission of light, a difference that students of natural phenomena are well acquainted with.