That human philosophy has [indeed] discovered many truths, is evident from the fact that people know that the acting force and the instrumental force work together as the cause [of something]. But this is where a fallacy arises, causing the human (who is only instrumental, or an instrument) to suppose that he or she is the acting force, because the accomplishing cause issues from the two forces combined. Because of this sense-deception, we ascribe to ourselves, the instrument, what belongs to the Lord, Who is the only acting force. This was said to some in heaven, and they recognized it to be so and likewise the fact that a person may know many truths, yet know nothing whatever in the practice of them, the instrument still thinking itself to be the force. This results in a distorted order of life, causing the fantasies that so torture their souls. 1748, 5 February.