660. CONCERNING THE LIFE OF THOSE WHO ARE WISE FROM THEMSELVES A certain spirit who I suppose was known to me in his life, and had died only a few years ago - three or four - also came to me and spoke with me. I knew nothing more about his life in the body than that he had been devoted to studies, and at the same time to philosophy, whence I could conclude that as a philosopher he also wanted to be in the mysteries of faith, and so to comprehend them that he would then first be willing to believe when he understood anything philosophically. He was with me for nearly a quarter of an hour, so that the life of his faith inflowed. This I could manifestly perceive by the fact that I began to doubt, or to feel cold, concerning the Lord's government in single things, whilst admitting it in the universal; wherefore whatever particular or single thing then inflowed, I, as it were, wanted to reject, as though the Lord governed heaven and earth only by a universal, not by a singular providence. This was the cold of intellectual faith, or the faith of truths, thus not of affection, as I now tell him; he is also present and directs the sense of these words. 1748, Feb. 6.