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that they are not to he searched into by the understanding; when yet such is the nature of spiritual faith, that truths themselves are seen in it, and so are believed.


THE ANGELS SEE TRUTHS: SO SHOULD MEN.

In heaven no one believes any truth unless he sees or has seen it; for there they say, Who can believe that it is so unless he sees it ? Perhaps it may be false, and none but the evil can believe what is false. For the evil, from evil, see falsities; whereas the good, from good, see truths. And inasmuch as good is from the Lord, the sight of truth from good is also from the Lord. The reason why the angels see truths, is, because the light of heaven in which they are, is the divine truth proceeding from the Lord. Hence all in the world also, to whom that light pertains, have the sight of truth. (A. E. 2-12.)

They who do not acknowledge the Divine in the Lord's Human, and who do not love truth spiritually, or because it is truth, cannot have the understanding enlightened so as to see whether a thing he true or not; but they see appearances of truth as genuine truths, and confirm them as genuine from the literal sense of the Word; notwithstanding most things in that sense are appearances, which, if confirmed as genuine truths, are falsified; and falsified truths are falsities. Such persons, since they cannot see truths from the light of

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