AE 569 [23] - Degrees of Reasoning

AE 569 [23}

. . . reasonings are in a like degree as the thoughts are,
since they descend from the thoughts;
thus there are reasonings from the spiritual person
which might better be called
conclusions from reasons and from truths;
there are reasonings from the natural person,
and there are reasonings from the sensual person.
Reasonings from the spiritual person are rational,
and therefore might better be called
conclusions from reasons and from truths,
because they are from the interior
and from the light of heaven;
but reasonings from the natural person
respecting spiritual things are not rational,
however rational they may be in things moral and civil,
which are evident before the eyes,
because they are from natural light alone;
but reasonings from the sensual person
respecting spiritual things are irrational,
because they are from fallacies
and thus from ideas that are false;
these are the reasonings here treated of in Revelation.