648. It can also be concluded from this of what avail faith in the understanding is, also preaching, so long as man is carried away by his cupidities. And how can intellectual faith alone be saving? For life is in the love, and nothing except the memory is in the understanding of these things. This was said to souls after death, or spirits, and it was so confirmed that they confessed that during their life they had altogether erred, and they have acknowledged their errors with sadness.