6. Miracles close the internal man, and take away all the free determination by means of which, and in which, man is regenerated. Free determination belongs properly to the internal man; and when this is closed up, man becomes external and natural, and such a man does not see any spiritual truth. Miracles also are like curtains and bars lest anything might enter. But this bar, or this bolt, is gradually broken, and all truths get dispersed.