1458. They indeed acknowledge the Lord as they also confessed, but only from the fact that they are cognitions, for in their thinking they will not enter more interiorly until they reach a spiritual state. But although they abound in cognitions, nevertheless they can be brought to the faith with greater difficulty than others, for they dislike the exercise of judgment, or the faculty of judging; they are perturbed thereby, as they now say, and they perceive annoyance when they even think about it. 1748, Mar. 16.