Elevation from outward to inward things is like elevation out
of a mist into light (n. 4598). As outer things in man are
farther removed from the Divine they are relatively obscure (n.
6451). Likewise relatively confused (n. 996, 3855). Inner
things are more perfect because they are nearer to the Divine
(n. 5146, 5147). In what is internal there are thousands and
thousands of things that appear in what is external as one
general thing (n. 5707). Consequently as thought and perception
are more interior they are clearer (n. 5920).
{Footnote 2} The sensual is the outmost of man's life adhering
to and inhering in his bodily part (n. 5077, 5767, 9212, 9216,
9331, 9730). He is called a sensual man who judges all things
and draws all his conclusions from the bodily senses, and
believes nothing except what he sees with his eyes and touches
with his hands (n. 5094, 7693). Such a man thinks in externals,
and not interiorly in himself (n. 5089, 5094, 6564, 7693). His
interiors are so closed up that he sees nothing of spiritual
truth in them (n. 6564, 6844, 6845). In a word, he is in gross
natural light and thus perceives nothing that is from the light
of heaven (n.
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