3386. There was further discussion about fallacies, in which I said that there are fallacies that they imagine not to be fallacies; also that there are very many, even countless things that appear to be real when they are not, such as paradisal phenomena and the like. So they asked whether or not they were fallacies, upon which I was prompted to say that fallacies are those things that are not true, or that are vessels that cannot contain truths, but that such things with angelic spirits or angels are not fallacies, but are appearances, and they are like vessels that can contain higher knowledge pertaining to faith. Therefore I told what higher knowledge of faith is that is not appearances, namely, that higher knowledge of faith is that the Lord rules the universe, that all Goodness and Truth are from the Lord Alone, that with us there is nothing but evil, and other knowledge of that kind. 1749, 27 Sept.