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reasoning animals for rationality is potential in them. Those have outer
enlightenment from themselves who think and speak solely from information
impressed on the memory; of themselves they can hardly confirm anything.

169. Such are the differences in enlightenment and consequently in
perception and thought. There is actual enlightenment by spiritual light,
but it is not manifest to one in the natural world because natural light
has nothing in common with spiritual light. This enlightenment has
sometimes been manifested to me in the spiritual world, however, visible
in those enlightened by the Lord as a luminosity around the head, aglow
with the color of the human face. With those in enlightenment from
themselves the luminosity was not around the head but around the mouth
and over the chin.

170. Besides these kinds of enlightenment there is another in which it is
revealed to one in what faith, intelligence and wisdom he is; he
perceives this in himself, such is the revelation. He is admitted into a
society where there is genuine faith and true intelligence and wisdom.
There his interior rationality is opened, from which he sees the nature
of his own faith, intelligence and wisdom, even to avowing it. I have
seen some as they returned and heard them confessing that they had no
faith although in the world they had believed they had much faith and
markedly more than others; they said the same of their intelligence and
wisdom. Some were in faith alone and in no charity, and some in
self-intelligence.

171. (iv) _Man is taught by the Lord through the Word and doctrine and
preaching from it, thus immediately by the Lord alone._ We said and
showed above that man is led and taught by the Lord alone, and from
heaven but not through heaven or any angel there. As it is by the Lord
alone, it is done immediately and not mediately. How this takes place
will be told now.

172. It was shown in _Doctrine of the New Jerusalem about the Sacred
Scripture_ that the Lord is the Word and that all the doctrine of the
church is to be drawn from the Word. Inasmuch as the Lord is the Word the
man who is taught from the Word is taught by the Lord alone. This is
comprehended with difficulty and will be clarified in this order:

1. The Lord is the Word because the Word is from Him and about Him.
2. Also because the Word is divine truth together with divine good.
3. To be taught from the Word is to be taught from Him, therefore.
4. That th