Do you wish to know how fast an angel can travel?

Now, said Aristotle, we will go and pay a visit to the sun's counterpart; for the sun, like ourselves, is actually but one sun in two forms, male and female; magnetism and electricity. But we will leave our ship behind and travel on rays of light.

And as fast as electricity and light can travel, we journeyed toward the sun's magnetic counterpart; and presently we arrived there. And here we found a great chemical laboratory. For every ray of light and heat which the sun shoots forth, travels directly to this magnetic globe, and is there again resolved into magnetism proper; and then rolls back again in great waves to the sun. This magnetic globe is invisible to man, as all magnetism is; and the electric body of the sun is also invisible to man; it is the result that is visible; it is the light and heat of magnetism and electricity that man sees and feels; for the light and heat of the sun strikes and bathes in glory, all the planets that lie between it and its counterpart; and the great magnetic waves, as they roll towards the sun, strike and bathe, and nourish all the planets that lie between it and the sun. Now as the clothing or form of the soul, is composed, equally of magnetism and electricity, it finds no difficulty in traveling on the wings of either; and if man on earth wishes to know how fast an angel can travel, he has only to watch the lightning's flash, and that truly reveals it to him. Or, an angel can move or glide, as slowly as it pleases, or remain perfectly at rest.