187. From these few facts it can be established that one who knows nothing about discrete degrees, that is, degrees of height, can know nothing about the state of man as to his reformation and regeneration, which are effected through the reception of love and wisdom from the Lord, and then through the opening of the interior degrees of his mind in their order. Nor can he know anything about influx through the heavens from the Lord, nor anything about the order into which he has been created. For if anyone thinks about these, not from discrete degrees or degrees of height, but from continuous degrees or degrees of breadth, he cannot see anything except by effects, and nothing from causes. And to see only from effects is to see from fallacies which come from errors, one after another. And these may be so multiplied by inductions, that at length enormous falsities are called truths.