6068, 6084).
Suitable knowledges [scientifica] are gradually implanted
in man's loves and as it were dwell in them (n. 6325).
If man were born into love towards the neighbor he would
be born into intelligence, but because he is born into the
loves of self and of the world he is born into total
ignorance (n. 6323, 6325).
Knowledge [scientia], intelligence, and wisdom are sons of
love to God and of love towards the neighbor (n. 1226,
2049, 2116).
[5] It is one thing to be wise, another thing to
understand, another to know [scire], and another to do;
nevertheless, in those that possess spiritual life these
follow in order, and exist together in doing or deeds (n.
10331).
Also it is one thing to know [scire], another to
acknowledge, and another to have faith (n. 896).
[6] Knowledges [scientifica], which pertain to the
external or natural man, are in the light of the world,
but truths that have been made truths of faith and of
love, and have thus acquired life, are in the light of
heaven (n. 5212).
The truths that have acquired spiritual life are
comprehended by means of natural ideas (n.
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