DLW 413 - Rationality: The Ability to Understand Matters Interiorly

DLW 413

(13) By a power imparted to it by love or the will,
wisdom or the intellect can be elevated
so as to admit from heaven such matters
as are matters of light and perceive them.
. . . a person can perceive the secrets of wisdom
when he hears them.
This faculty of the human being
is the faculty called rationality,
which everyone has from creation.
It is the ability to understand matters interiorly
and to draw conclusions
regarding what is just and equitable
and what is good and true,
and it is this faculty that distinguishes
the human being from animals.
This, therefore, is what we mean by the statement
that the intellect can be elevated
and admit from heaven such matters
as are matters of light and perceive them.