401. 8212. This, too, I am able to affirm by quite a lot of experience. For when knowledge, and matters of memory, which are exceedingly limited, wished to go into spiritual matters and more or less store them up, then I would immediately fall into doubts, and if these had not been removed by God the Messiah in His infinite mercy, I would have fallen headlong into the thickest darkness, into doubts and denials. For particulars can never enter into universals. Lower things must be contemplated from what is higher, thus from its watchtowers, and never the other way around. The more universal principles, which come together to form truths, are introduced by none other than God the Messiah. For all truths, however many there may be, focus upon belief in God the Messiah, and they do so by a varied interrelation. Truths of nature likewise focus upon it, for earthly things are depictions of spiritual and heavenly realities. [Philosophy]