2546. It is similar with matters in the spiritual world, especially those pertaining to faith. These must not be doubted, much less rejected, because we do not understand the causes and because they are not according to the way things appear, when yet they are truths because the Lord, Who is Himself the Truth, has said them-as that it is the Lord Alone Who lives, that other lives on earth and in heaven, are nothing, and very many statements of this kind. These too are contrary to the appearance, as I have quite often been prompted to tell spirits, yet they are still true and should therefore not be denied just because we do not understand, and because we seem to ourselves to live on our own. 1748, 6 July.