13. The understanding in spiritual things is destroyed with those of the clergy who have confirmed with themselves the falsities of the faith of the present day.
It is not destroyed with the laity, because they have not confirmed it.
How a clergyman closes his understanding to spiritual things with himself, and also with the laity. Confirmation closes it, why? Many kinds of confirmation. Confirmation by life is the worst.
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