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Swedenborg, Emanuel, 1688-1772

"Heaven and its Wonders and Hell"

4760, 8629).
[8] Those who reason from knowledges [scientificis]
against the truths of faith reason keenly because they
reason from the fallacies of the senses, which are
engaging and convincing, because they cannot easily be
dispelled (n. 5700).
What things are fallacies of the senses, and what they are
(n. 5084, 5094, 6400, 6948).
Those that have no understanding of truth, and also those
that are in evil, are able to reason about the truths and
goods of faith, but are not able to understand them (n.
4214).
Intelligence does not consist in merely confirming dogma
but in seeing whether it is true or not before it is
confirmed (n. 4741, 6047).
[9] Knowledges [scientiae] are of no avail after death,
but only that which man has imbibed in his understanding
and life by means of knowledges [scientias] (n. 2480).
Still all knowledge [scientifica] remains after death,
although it is quiescent (n. 2476-2479, 2481-2486).
[10] Knowledge [scientifica] with the evil are falsities,
because they are adapted to evils, but with the good the
same knowledges are truths, because applied to what is
good (n.


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