2494. While people with whom love to the Lord and charity towards the neighbour exist are living in the world they have angelic intelligence and wisdom with them and within them, but it is concealed in the inmost parts of their interior memory. This intelligence and wisdom cannot possibly be seen by them until they cast off bodily things. When they do so the memory of particulars, referred to above, is put to sleep, and they are awakened to the interior memory, and gradually after that to angelic memory itself.