AE 552 [2]
The sensual person,
who is in falsities from evil,
reasons as if from an understanding of truth,
because he is in the persuasion
that falsity is truth and that evil is good;
and so long as he is in that persuasion
he can see nothing rationally and intellectually;
but whatever he has persuaded himself of,
he believes to be a matter of the highest reason
and most eminent understanding;
for the rational and intellectual in him is closed up,
and thus he is in a persuasive belief
respecting the things he thinks and speaks.
The sensual person reasons acutely and readily,
because his thought is so near his speech
as to be almost in it,
and because he places all intelligence
in discoursing merely from the memory . . ..
AE 553
. . . Divine truth combats from Divine good . . ..
AE 554
. . . Divine truth dissipates everything fantastic
that comes from persuasiveness.
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