AC 5871 - Morning; AC 5874 - What Memory-knowledges (Facts) Are and Do

AC 5871 - Morning

. . . the mind is gladdened by the morning of the day.

AC 5874 - What Memory-knowledges (Facts) Are and Do

That memory-knowledges are the ultimates with a person,
namely, in his memory and thought,
is not apparent,
for it seems to him as if they make
the whole of intelligence and of wisdom.
But it is not so.
They are only vessels
containing the things of intelligence and of wisdom,
and indeed the ultimate vessels,
for they conjoin themselves
with the sensuous things of the body.
That they are ultimates
is plain to him who reflects upon his thought,
when he inquires into any truth,
in that memory-knowledges are then present,
but are not apparent;
for the thought then extracts what they contain
(and this from very many
scattered here and there and even deeply hidden),
and thus forms conclusions;
and the more interiorly the thought penetrates,
so much the farther does it remove itself from them.
This may be clear from the fact
that when a person comes
into the other life and becomes a spirit,
he indeed has with him memory-knowledges,
but he is not allowed to use them, for several reasons;
and yet he thinks and speaks concerning truth and good
much more distinctly and perfectly than in the world.
Hence it may be seen
that memory-knowledges are serviceable to a person
for forming the understanding,
but when the understanding has been formed,
they then constitute an ultimate plane
in which the person no longer thinks,
but above it.