1469. They who assume verities from the Word of the Lord as their theses, and thus confirm them by philosophical reasonings or by arguments sought from nature, do not suffer anything grievous, provided they have not done this from the love of self. Those, however, who do this from their own ingenuity, assuming fixed theses by which they want to hatch out or confirm spiritual and celestial verities, do suffer hardships, because this is an inverted way. But it is not allowed me as yet to determine anything further concerning these varieties, because I am in the company of the celestial, not in that of the spiritual. 1748, Mar. 17.