Arcana Coelestia (Potts) n. 4532

Previous Number Next Number Next Translation See Latin 

4532. They who believe that they understand good and truth of themselves, and hence trust in themselves alone, and thus deem themselves wiser than all (although they are in ignorance of what is good and true), and especially those who do not desire to understand what is good and true, and consequently are in falsities, in the other life are sometimes let into a state of darkness; and when they are in it, they speak idiotically, for they are in stupidity. I have been told that there are many such, and among them those who had believed themselves to be set in the greatest light, and had also appeared so to others.


This page is part of the Writings of Emanuel Swedenborg

© 2000-2001 The Academy of the New Church