27. No one is able to see the desolation of truth in the Church before the truths of the Word come to light. What heretic, indeed, knows anything else than that all his heresies are truths? Every one can swear to his own. There is a delusive light arising from confirmations. In such light is the natural man until the spiritual man enlightens him. Yea, an atheistic naturalist may swear that there is no God, and that the existence of God is a mere vain imagination of the common herd; wherefore, at heart, he scoffs at the learned men of the Church.