5077, 5767, 9212, 9216,
9331, 9730). He is called a sensual man who forms all his
judgments and conclusions from the bodily senses, and who
believes nothing except what he sees with his eyes and touches
with his hands (n. 5094, 7693). Such a man thinks in things
outermost and not interiorly in himself (n. 5089, 5094, 6564,
7693). His interiors are so closed up that he sees nothing of
Divine truth (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. 6201, 6310, 6564, 6598, 6612, 6614, 6622, 6624,
6844, 6845). Therefore he is inwardly opposed to all things
pertaining to heaven and the church (n. 6201, 6310, 6844, 6845,
6948, 6949). The learned that have confirmed themselves against
the truths of the church are sensual (n. 6316). A description
of the sensual man (n. 10236).
{Footnote 2} Sensual men reason keenly and cunningly, since
they place all intelligence in speaking from the bodily memory
(n. 195, 196, 5700, 10236). But they reason from the fallacies
of the senses (n. 5084, 6948, 6949, 7693). Sensual men are more
cunning and malicious than others (n.
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