1024. Exterior things which pertain to what is corporeal and natural, or the exteriors of man, constitute, as it were, a skull with hair. Interior things have regard to those interiors which man has acquired through interior thoughts. It is falsities which harden these crusts: natural falsities harden the skull, and spiritual falsities harden the medulla.
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