1048. AMONGST VERY UPRIGHT SPIRITS THERE ARE SOME WHO DO NOT INDEED JUDGE CONCERNING THE THINGS THAT HAPPEN, BUT WHO CANNOT HELP DECLARING, AND THAT SPEEDILY, WHAT THEY ARE LIKE There are certain very upright spirits who feel the quality of things as it were gently, not acutely through any interior meditation, and they declare quickly enough, "That it is not good"; "That it is not well"; "That it is well"; and frequently that "It ought not to be so"; "It is not so, but thus." They speak according to the variation which they feel in others to whom they wish well. If they are with the evil, they do not speak in this way about them. They have an interior sense which has not become acute by meditation and thought during their life in the body. In their infancy they had been dull, as it were, and difficult to teach; but as they progressed in life they became sufficiently instructed from themselves and their own disposition concerning the goodness of a thing, but not so concerning its truth.
[1048a.] It was further given me to perceive that in such there is something infantile. It is a most gentle simplicity, and thus in them there is a perception of good and truth. 1748, Sept. 14.* * This was written in the margin of n. 1048 when Swedenborg was making the Index.
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