6047).
Thus it is permissible for those who are in an affirmative
state in regard to truths of faith to confirm them
intellectually by means of knowledges [scientifica], but
not for those who are in a negative state (n. 2568, 2588,
4760, 6047).
He that will not believe Divine truths until he is
convinced by means of knowledges [scientificis] will never
believe (n. 2094, 2832).
To enter from knowledge [scientificis] into the truths of
faith is contrary to order (n. 10236).
Those who do so become demented respecting the things of
heaven and the church (n. 128, 129, 130).
They fall into the falsities of evil (n. 232, 233, 6047).
In the other life when they think about spiritual matters
they become as it were drunken (n. 1072).
More respecting the character of such (n. 196).
Examples showing that things spiritual cannot be
comprehended when entered into through knowledges
[scientifica] (n. 233, 2094, 2196, 2203, 2209).
In spiritual things many of the learned are more demented
than the simple, for the reason that they are in a
negative state, which they confirm by means of the
knowledges [scientifica] which they have continually and
in abundance before their sight (n.
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