4318. 天使聪明的主要特征就是他们知道并发觉一切生命皆出自主, 以及天堂整体上与祂的神性人身相对应; 因而一切天使, 灵人和世人都对应于天堂; 还知道并发觉这种对应的性质, 或说它们以哪种方式进行对应. 这些就是聪明的主要特征, 这些特征在天使里面的表现, 远远胜过在世人里面的. 天使由此知道并觉察到存在于众天堂中的无数事物, 因而也知道并觉察到存在于世上的事物; 因为出现在世上的事物及其性质就是源自如同它们初始的那些众天堂中的事物的原因和结果. 因为整个自然界就是代表主国度的舞台.

1200. That 'Canaan' means external worship that has nothing internal within it has been shown already where Canaan was the subject. The type of external worship which is called 'Canaan' is similar to that of the Jews before the Lord's Coming, and after it as well. They had an external worship, which they also celebrated meticulously, yet they were unaware of what is internal, indeed so unaware of it as to imagine that they lived solely with a body. Of the soul, or faith, or the Lord, or spiritual and celestial life, or life after death, they were totally ignorant. Consequently very many in the Lord's time said that there was no resurrection, as is clear in Matthew 22:23-33; Mark 12:18-27; Luke 20:27-40. When a person is such that he does not believe he will live after death, he also does not believe in the existence of anything internal which is spiritual and celestial. This applies also to people whose lives are sunk in wholly evil desires because they lead merely bodily and worldly lives, especially those who are steeped in filthy avarice. They nevertheless have worship, some going to synagogue, or to church, and taking part in the services, some most meticulously. But because they do not believe in a life after death their worship is inevitably external worship having nothing internal within it, like a shell without a nut, and like a tree on which there is no fruit or even leaves. Such external worship is meant by 'Canaan'. All other types of external worship dealt with above were forms of worship that had internal things within them.