806. But these are they who had loved only such things, and considered them as essential, while they are but the lowest means. These people always imagine such things to be most important, as is commonly done, because they are means for coming to inward, and so to very inward principles. On account of his love of these pursuits and the delusions it causes, in his thoughts this person did not rise beyond them, much less come to universal principles. Consequently, he did not have the purpose of putting them to a further use.