TCR 344-345 - a summary of the different spiritual and natural states of faith

TCR 344-345
The being of the faith of the new church is:
(1) Complete faith in the Lord God, the Saviour Jesus Christ;
(2) Trust, that a person who lives a good life
and holds a proper belief
is saved by Him.

The essence of the faith of the new church is: Truth from the Word.

The coming into being of the faith of the new church is:
(1) Spiritual sight.
(2) A harmony of truths.
(3) Conviction.
(4) Acknowledgment imprinted on the mind.

The states of the faith of the new church are:
(1) Infant faith, youthful faith and adult faith.
(2) Faith from genuine truth and faith from the appearances of truth.
(3) Faith from memory, faith from reason, faith from enlightenment.
(4) Natural faith, spiritual faith, celestial faith.
(5) Living faith and miraculous faith.
(6) Free faith and faith under compulsion.

Having given a summary of the things which go to make up spiritual faith,
I shall now give too a summary of the things
which go to make up purely natural faith.
This is essentially a firm conviction which pretends to be faith,
but is a conviction of falsity, known as heretical faith. Its various types are:
(1) Spurious faith, in which falsities are mixed with truths.
(2) Meretricious faith coming from falsified truths,
and adulterous faith coming from different kinds of adulterated good.
(3) Concealed or blind faith,
which is faith in mysteries which are believed in,
despite ignorance whether they are true or false,
or whether they are above the level of reason or contrary to it.
(4) Erratic faith, which is in a plurality of gods.
(5) One-eyed faith, which is in some god other than the true one,
and in the case of Christians in a god other than the Lord God the Saviour.
(6) Hypocritical or Pharisaical faith,
faith which is a faith of the lips, but not the heart.
(7) Imaginary or upside-down faith,
which is falsity made by clever arguments to seem like truth.