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Doc. 302.] ADDITIONS TO UNIVERSAL THEOLOGY. 765
head to the sole of the foot, and this is joined by an influx
of all good from God.
Whence it follows, that no one knows anything concerning
the influx of love out of the will into the perception of the
understanding, and from the understanding into the thought,
and hence into speech and action. [When this kind of influx
is mentioned,] men laugh, and say, These are surely figments of
the imagination; let these things enter by influx, if they choose ;
what use is there in knowing all this; will it be of any use?
Such men are like an inhabitant of an island in the sea,
who does not know that there is other inhabitable land in
the globe.
He is also like a fish in a stream, which does not know
that there is air above the water.
And, further, he is like a boar in a large forest, which
does not know that outside the forest there are fields.
G.
THE THOUGHTS OF MATERIALISTS RESPECTING GOD. *
Those who are constantly in a material idea, like the
learned who are in the mere rudiments of philosophy, and
think that they are wise, if they acknowledge God, adore
the mere phrase, that there is a God. But if they are told
that God is Man, and that the Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ
is that Man, they do not acknowledge it ; because their thought
respecting Him is material, and not at the same time spiritual,
wherefore they also separate His Divine Essence from His
Humanity, and declare that there is a mystical conjunction
between them.
H.
A MEMORABLE RELATION RESPECTING THE COUNCIL IN CONSTANTINOPLE.†
There was a Synod in Constantinople, where the spiritual
things of the church were discussed.
Those on the left were divided into four companies, all
* See original MS., p. 19.
See original MS., p. 9. This is a mere scheme or skeleton of a
Memorable Relation.
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