Arcana Coelestia (Elliott) n. 4532

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4532. There are those who believe that the source of their understanding of what is good and true resides within themselves, and who as a consequence trust solely in themselves, thus imagining that they are wiser than all others. These - though in fact they do not have any knowledge of what is good and true, especially those who do not wish to have an understanding of what is good and true and are therefore governed by falsities - are sometimes consigned in the next life to a state of darkness. While they are in that state what they say is foolish since they dwell in a state of stupidity. I have been told that there are many like these, included among them those who had believed themselves to be dwelling in the greatest light and had also seemed to others to do so.


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