d 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. 5510).

Spiritual influx is from the internal or spiritual man
into the knowledges [scientifica] that are in the external
or natural man (n. 1940, 8005).

Knowledges [scientifica] are receptacles, and as it were
vessels, for the truth and good that belong to the
internal man (n. 1469, 1496, 3068, 5489, 6004, 6023, 6052,
6071, 6077, 7770, 9922).

Knowledges [scientifica] are like mirrors in which the
truths and goods of the internal man appear as an image
(n. 5201).

There they are together as in their outmost (n. 5373,
5874, 5886, 5901, 6004, 6023, 6052, 6071).

[7] Influx is not physical but spiritual, that is, influx
is from the internal man into the external, thus into the
knowledges of the external; and not from the external into
the internal, thus not from the knowledges [scientificis]
of the external into truths of faith (n. 3219, 5119, 5259,
5427, 5428, 5478, 6322, 9110).

A beginning must be made from the truths of doctrine of
the church, which are from the Word, and those truths must
first be acknowledged, and then it is permissible to
consult knowledges [scientifica] (n. 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 b