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HEAVEN AND HELL 284
More respecting the character of such (n. 196).
Examples showing that things spiritual cannot be comprehended when
entered into through knowledges (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 which they have continually and in abundance before their
sight (n. 4760, 8629).
[8] Those who reason from knowledges 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 are of no avail after death, but only that which man has
imbibed in his understanding and life by means of knowledges (n. 2480).
Still all knowledge remains after death, although it is quiescent (n.
2476–2479, 2481–2486).
[10] Knowledges 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. 6917).
True knowledges with the evil are not true, however much they may
appear to be true when uttered, because there is evil within them (n. 10331).
[11] An example of the desire to know, which spirits have (n. 1974).
Angels have an illimitable longing to know and to become wise, since
learning, intelligence, and wisdom are spiritual food (n. 3114, 4459, 4792,