will is of love and so of affection, understanding is of wisdom and so
of faith, and doing is of use and so of work; as, then, all things of
wisdom and love are present in use, so all things of thought and affection
are present in action, all things of faith and charity in good works, and
so forth; but all are homogeneous, that is, concordant.

215. That the outmost in each series, that is to say, use, action, work,
and doing, is the complex and containant of all things prior, has not
yet been known. There seems to be nothing more in use, in action, in
work, and in doing than such as there is in movement; yet all things
prior are actually present in these, and so fully that nothing is lacking.
They are contained therein like wine in its cask, or like furniture in
a house. They are not apparent, because they are regarded only externally;
and regarded externally they are simply activities and motions. It is as
when the arms and hands are moved, and man is not conscious that a
thousand motor fibers concur in every motion of them, and that to the
thousand motor fibers correspond thousands of things of thought and
affection, by which the motor fibers are excited. As these act deep
within, they are not apparent to any bodily sense. This much is known,
that nothing is done in or through the body except from the will through
the thought; and because both of these act, it must needs be that each
and all things of the will and thought are present in the action. They
cannot be separated; consequently from a man's deeds or works others
judge of the thought of his will, which is called his intention. It has
been made known to me that angels, from a man's deed or work alone,
perceive and see every thing of the will and thought of the doer; angels
of the third heaven perceiving and seeing from his will the end for which
he acts, and angels of the second heaven the cause through which the end
operates. It is from this that works and deeds are so often commanded in
the Word, and that it is said that a man is known by his works.