TCR 565 - the sensual

TCR 565
The sensual is the lowest level of life in the human mind,
firmly attached to and bound up with the five bodily senses.
The term 'sensual man' is applied to a person
whose every judgment relies upon the bodily senses,
and who believes nothing but what he can see with his eyes
and touch with his hands,
regarding these things as real and rejecting all else.

The spirits in the hells are sensual,
and the deeper their hell, the more sensual they are.

If thought is not raised above the level of sense impressions,
a person's wisdom is very restricted.
When a person's thought is raised above this level,
he comes into brighter illumination, and eventually into the light of heaven,
so that then he can perceive such ideas as flow down from heaven.
The lowest level of the understanding is natural factual knowledge,
the lowest level of the will the pleasure of the senses.