Knowledges [cognitiones] open the way to the internal man,
and afterwards conjoin that man with the external in
accordance with uses (n. 1563, 1616).
The rational faculty has its birth by means of knowledges
[scientias et cognitiones] (n. 1895, 1900, 3086).
But not by means of knowledges [cognitiones] themselves,
but by means of affection for the uses derived from them
(n. 1895).
[2] There are knowledges [scientifica] that give entrance
to Divine truths, and knowledges [scientifica] that do not
(n. 5213).
Empty knowledges [scientifica] are to be destroyed (n.
1489, 1492, 1499, 1581).
Empty knowledges [scientifica] are such as have the loves
of self and of the world as an end, and sustain those
loves, and withdraw from love to God and love towards the
neighbor, because such knowledges close up the internal
man, even to the extent that man becomes unable to receive
any thing from heaven (n. 1563, 1600).
Knowledges [scientifica] are means to becoming wise and
means to becoming insane and by them the internal man is
either opened or closed, and thus the rational is either
enriched or destroyed (n.
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