353、伪谬的聪明和智慧是一切与承认上帝相分离的聪明和智慧。因为所有不承认上帝、以承认自然来取而代之的人，无论他们在世上因学识渊博而受到多高的尊敬，都是从肉体感官来思考的，纯粹是感官的人。｛注1｝因为他们的学问没有升华而超越眼前在尘世上的事物。他们将这些事物保留在记忆中，以几乎物质的方式看待它们，尽管这些知识在形成他们的理智时服务于真正的聪明。学问是指各种实验知识，如物理学、天文学、化学、力学、几何学、解剖学、心理学、哲学、政治历史学，以及文学、批判学和语言学。
[2]否认上帝的神职人员不能将他们的思想提升至外在人的感官事物之上，而且看待圣经的内容就和其他人看待学问一样，并未把它们当成思考的主题、或者当成以开明的理性头脑去觉悟的事项，这是因为他们的内层、连同那些最接近内层的外层部分已经被关闭。这些之所以被关闭，是因为他们转离天堂，将那些能仰望天堂的官能，也就是前面所说的人类心智的内层向后弯曲，因此，他们毫无能力去看见任何真理和良善，因为对他们来说，这些事物都在漆黑的黑暗中，而同时，任何伪谬和邪恶都在光明中。
[3]然而，感官人能进行推理，其中一些人比其他人更精巧、敏锐。但他们出于自己的知识所确认的感官之伪谬来推理。因为他们能以这种方式进行推理，故自以为比别人更有智慧。｛注2｝点燃他们推理情感之火，是爱自己、爱世界的火。这些就是在伪谬的聪明和智慧中的人，就是主在马太福音中所指的人：
他们看也看不见，听也听不见，也不明白。（马太福音13:13-15）
又：
你将这些事向聪明和智慧人就藏起来，向婴孩就显出来。（马太福音11:25-26）
｛注1｝：感官层是人生命的最外层，依附并固有于肉体的部分（5077，5767，9212，9216，9331，9730）。基于身体的感官形成一切判断和结论，并且除了亲眼所见、亲手所摸的外什么也不信的人，被称为感官人（5094，7693）。这种人以外在、而不是在自己里面的内在进行思考。 （5089，5094，6564，7693）。他的内层如此紧闭，以至于他看不见丝毫神性真理（6564，6844，6845）。简言之，他在粗糙的属世之光中，感知不到来自天堂之光的任何事物（6201，6310，6564，6598，6612，6614，6622，6624，6844，6845）。因此，他内心反对一切与天堂和教会有关的事物（6201，6310，6844，6845，6948，6949）。坚定自己反对教会真理的学者都是感官的（6316）。对感官人的描述（10236）。
｛注2｝：感官人推理起来既敏锐又精巧，因为他们将一切聪明都放在出于肉体记忆的谈论中（195-196，5700，10236）。然而，他们从感官的谬误中推理（5084，6948，6949，7693）。感官人比其他人更狡猾、恶毒（7693，10236）。古人称这种人为“知识树上的巨蛇”（195-197，6398，6949，10313）。
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353. 虚假的聪明与智慧是指缺乏对神性的承认的一切聪明与智慧. 事实上, 凡不承认神性, 而是承认自然界以取代神性的人, 都出于肉体感官进行思考, 纯粹是感官的, 无论他们在世界因成就和学问而受到多高的敬重. 因为他们的学问没有上升越过诸如在这个世界上出现在他们眼前的那类事物; 他们将这些事物保留在记忆中, 以几乎物质的方式看待它们, 尽管这些知识在形成他们的理解力时服务于真正的聪明. 科学是指各种实验知识, 如物理学, 天文学, 化学, 力学, 几何学, 解剖学, 心理学, 哲学, 政治历史学, 以及文学, 批判学和语言学.
否认神性的神职人员不能将他们的思维提升越过外在人的感官事物, 并且看待圣言和看待其它知识没什么区别, 并未把它们当成思维的事, 或通过开明的理性头脑深入考虑的事. 这是因为他们的内层已被关闭, 连同内层被关闭的还有那些最接近其内层的外层. 它们之所以被关闭, 是因为他们背离天堂, 将那些能仰望天堂的官能, 也就是如前面所说的人类心智的内层向后弯转. 因此, 他们不能看见任何真理或良善, 因为对他们来说, 这些事物都在黑暗里, 而虚假与邪恶倒在光明中.
然而, 感官人能进行逻辑推理, 其中一些人推理起来甚至比其他人更娴熟, 敏锐. 但他们却出于由其知识所确认的感官谬论进行推理; 他们因能以这种方式进行推理, 故自以为比别人更有智慧. 以情感点燃其推理的火是爱自己, 爱世界的火. 这种人就是那些陷入虚假的聪明与智慧之人, 就是主在马太福音中所指的人:
他们看也看不见, 听也听不见, 也不明白. (马太福音 13:13-15)
又:
你将这些事向聪明智慧人就藏起来, 向婴孩就显出来. (马太福音 11:25-26)
注: 感官层是人生命的最外层, 附于并嵌入其肉体部分(天国的奥秘 5077, 5767, 9212, 9216, 9331, 9730节). 凡基于身体感官形成其一切判断和结论, 并且除了亲眼所见, 亲手所摸的外什么也不信的人就被称为感官人(天国的奥秘 5094, 7693节). 这种人以其最外在的心智进行思考, 而不是在自己里面进行更内在的思考(天国的奥秘 5089, 5094, 6564, 7693节). 他的内层被如此关闭, 以致他看不见丝毫神性真理(天国的奥秘 6564, 6844, 6845节). 简言之, 他处于粗糙的属世之光, 因而看不见出自天堂之光的任何事物(天国的奥秘 6201, 6310, 6564, 6598, 6612, 6614, 6622, 6624, 6844, 6845节). 因此, 他从内在反对属于天堂和教会的一切事物(天国的奥秘 6201, 6310, 6844, 6845, 6948, 6949节). 确认反对教会真理的学者都是感官的(天国的奥秘 6316节). 对感官人的描述(天国的奥秘 10236节). 感官人推理起来既敏锐又娴熟, 因为他们将一切聪明都置于出于肉体记忆的谈论(天国的奥秘 195, 196, 5700, 10236节). 然而, 他们推理所仰赖的, 是感官谬论(天国的奥秘 5084, 6948, 6949, 7693节). 感官人比其他人更狡猾, 恶毒(天国的奥秘 7693, 10236节). 古人将这种人称为“知识树上的蛇”(天国的奥秘 195-197, 6398, 6949, 10313节).
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353. 假的聰明智慧指不承認上帝之人所擁有的聰明智慧。事實上,
凡不承認上帝, 以自然代替上帝的人, 皆在肉體的層面思考問題。不論其在世間被認為多有學問, 他們都是純感官主義者。他們的知識不能超越眼前的事物, 這些事物被他們存于記憶, 完全作為物質來觀察。真正聰明的人, 卻將同樣的學問作為形成悟性的途徑。所謂學問, 我們指諸如物理學, 天文學, 化學, 機械學, 幾何學, 解剖學, 心理學, 哲學, 政治歷史學, 文學, 批判學, 語言學等實驗性的知識。
神職人員也有否認上帝的, 他們的思想不能超越感官的印象, 故將聖言的內容視為普通的知識, 不能以開明的頭腦來思考之, 啟究之。因為他們的內層已經閉合, 緊接內層的較外層也已閉合, 其根源在於他們背對天國, 扭曲了原本可照見天國的本能, 如前面所說, 就是人的心靈。所以, 他們不能照見真理與良善, 對他們來說, 這一切皆在黑暗之中, 啟啟和邪啟反在光明之中。
不過, 感官主義者也能作邏輯思考, 有的甚至比常人更有技巧, 更有深度。但是, 他們所仗賴的只是自己的學問所支撐的感官幻相。憑著這種邏輯思考的能力, 他們自認為比別人更有智慧。激發他們作邏輯思考的火, 是我欲和物欲之火。主說:"他們看也看不見, 聽也聽不見, 也不明白"(馬太福音13:13-15),"你將這些事向聰明智慧人就藏起來, 向嬰孩就顯出來"(馬太福音11:25-26), 指的正是這些擁有假的聰明智慧的人。
353. By false intelligence and wisdom we mean any intelligence and wisdom that is devoid of acknowledgment of the Divine. In fact, people who do not acknowledge the Divine Being but put nature in place of the Divine all think on the basis of their physical bodies. They are merely sense-centered, no matter how scholarly and learned they are considered in this world. 1Their learning, though, does not rise any higher than the things in front of their eyes in this world, things that they keep in their memory and inspect almost physically. This is the case even though the very same branches of knowledge serve truly intelligent people as a means of forming their understanding. By "branches of knowledge" we mean the various experimental disciplines such as physics, astronomy, chemistry, mechanics, geometry, anatomy, psychology, philosophy, and political history, as well as the realms of literature and criticism and language study.
[2] There are church dignitaries who deny the Divine. They do not raise their thoughts any higher than the sensory concerns of the outer person. They look on the contents of the Word as no different from knowledge about anything else; they do not treat those contents as subjects of thought or of any thorough consideration by an enlightened rational mind. This is because their own deeper levels are closed off, and along with them, the more outward levels that are next to these deeper ones. The reason they are closed is that they have turned their backs on heaven and reversed the things that they could see there, things that are proper to the deeper levels of the human mind, as we have noted before. This is why they cannot see what is true and good - because these matters are in darkness for them, while what is false and evil is in the light.
[3] Nevertheless, sense-centered people can think logically, some of them actually with more skill and penetration than other people. However, they rely on deceptive sensory appearances bolstered by their own learning, and since they can think logically in this fashion, they think they are wiser than other people. 2The fire that fuels their reasoning is the fire of love for themselves and the world.
These are the people who are devoted to false intelligence and wisdom, the ones meant by the Lord in Matthew: "Seeing they do not see, and hearing they do not hear, nor do they understand" (Matthew 13:13-15); and again, "Things are hidden from the intelligent and wise and revealed to children" (Matthew 11:25-26).
Footnotes:
1. The sensory level is the outmost level of our life, attached to and embedded in our bodies: 5077, 5767, 9212, 9216, 9331, 9730. We call people sense-centered if they evaluate and decide about everything on the basis of their physical senses and do not believe anything unless they see it with their eyes and touch it with their hands: 5094, 7693. People like this do their thinking in their most external minds, and not more inwardly within themselves: 5089, 5094, 6564, 7693. Their deeper levels are closed, so that they can see nothing of divine truth: 6564, 6844-6845. In short, they are in a crude natural illumination and can see nothing that comes from heaven's light: 6201, 6310, 6564, 6844-6845, 6598, 6612, 6614, 6622, 6624. So they are profoundly opposed to whatever involves heaven and the church: 6201, 6316 [6310?], 6844-6845, 6948-6949. Scholars who have convinced themselves in opposition to the truths of the church are sense-centered: 6316. A description of the nature of sense-centered people: 10236.
2. The logical thinking of sense-centered people is both keen and skillful because they place all intelligence in talking from their physical memory: 195-196, 5700, 10236. However, all this relies on deceptive sensory appearances: 5084, 6948-6949, 7693. Sense-centered people are more canny and vicious than others: 7693, 10236. The ancients called people like this "serpents of the tree of knowledge": 195-197, 6398, 6949, 10313.
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353. False intelligence and wisdom is all intelligence and wisdom that is separated from the acknowledgment of the Divine; for all such as do not acknowledge the Divine, but acknowledge nature in the place of the Divine, think from the corporeal-sensual, and are merely sensual, however highly they may be esteemed in the world for their erudition and learning. 1But their learning does not ascend beyond such things as appear before their eyes in the world; these they hold in the memory and look at them in an almost material way, although the same knowledges serve the truly intelligent in forming their understanding. By sciences the various kinds of experimental knowledge are meant, physics, astronomy, chemistry, mechanics, geometry, anatomy, psychology, philosophy, the history of kingdoms and of the literary world, criticism, and languages.
[2] Dignitaries of the Church who deny the Divine do not raise their thoughts above the sensual things of the external man, and regard the things of the Word in the same way as others regard the sciences, not making them matters of thought or of any intuition by an enlightened rational mind, and for the reason that their interiors have been closed up, together with those exteriors that are nearest to their interiors. These have been closed up because they have turned themselves away from heaven, and have bent back those faculties that were capable of looking heavenward, which are, as has been said above, the interiors of the human mind. For this reason they are incapable of seeing what is true and good, this being to them in thick darkness, while whatever is false and evil is in light.
[3] And yet sensual men can reason, some of them more cunningly and keenly than anyone else; but they reason from the fallacies of the senses confirmed by their knowledges; and because they are able to reason in this way they believe themselves to be wiser than others. 2The fire that kindles with affection their reasonings is the fire of the love of self and the world. Such are those who are in false intelligence and wisdom, and who are meant by the Lord in Matthew:
Seeing they see not, and hearing they hear not, neither do they understand. Matthew 13:13-15.
And again:
These things are hid from the intelligent and wise, and revealed unto babes. Matthew 11:25-26.
Footnotes:
1. The sensual is the ultimate of man's life, clinging to and inhering in his bodily part (Arcana Coelestia 5077, 5767, 9212, 9216, 9331, 9730).
He is called a sensual man who forms all his judgments and conclusions from the bodily senses, and who believes nothing except what he sees with his eyes and touches with his hands (Arcana Coelestia 5094, 7693).
Such a man thinks in things outermost and not interiorly in himself (Arcana Coelestia 5089, 5094, 6564, 7693).
His interiors are so closed up that he sees nothing of Divine Truth (Arcana Coelestia 6564, 6844-6845).
In a word he is in gross natural light and thus perceives nothing that is from the light of heaven (Arcana Coelestia 6201, 6310, 6564, 6598, 6612, 6614, 6622, 6624, 6844-6845).
Therefore he is inwardly opposed to all things pertaining to heaven and the Church (Arcana Coelestia 6201, 6310, 6844-6845, 6948-6949).
The learned who have confirmed themselves against the truths of the Church are sensual (Arcana Coelestia 6316).
A description of the sensual man (Arcana Coelestia 10236).
2. Sensual men reason keenly and cunningly, since they place all intelligence in speaking from the bodily memory (Arcana Coelestia 195-196, 5700, 10236).
But they reason from the fallacies of the senses (Arcana Coelestia 5084, 6948-6949, 7693).
Sensual men are more cunning and malicious than others (Arcana Coelestia 7693, 10236).
By the ancients such were called serpents of the tree of knowledge (Arcana Coelestia 195-197, 6398, 6949, 10313).
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353. False intelligence and wisdom is all intelligence and wisdom that is separated from the acknowledgment of the Divine; for all such as do not acknowledge the Divine, but acknowledge nature in the place of the Divine, think from the bodily-sensual, and are merely sensual, however highly they may be esteemed in the world for their accomplishments and learning. 1For their learning does not ascend beyond such things as appear before their eyes in the world; these they hold in the memory and look at them in an almost material way, although the same knowledges serve the truly intelligent in forming their understanding. By sciences the various kinds of experimental knowledge are meant, such as physics, astronomy, chemistry, mechanics, geometry, anatomy, psychology, philosophy, the history of kingdoms and of the literary world, criticism, and languages.
[2] The clergy who deny the Divine do not raise their thoughts above the sensual things of the external man; and regard the things of the Word in the same way as others regard the sciences, not making them matters of thought or of any intuition by an enlightened rational mind; and for the reason that their interiors are closed up, together with those exteriors that are nearest to their interiors. These are closed up because they have turned themselves away from heaven, and have retroverted those faculties that were capable of looking heavenward, which are, as has been said above, the interiors of the human mind. For this reason they are incapable of seeing anything true or good, this being to them in thick darkness, while whatever is false and evil is in light.
[3] And yet sensual men can reason, some of them more cunningly and keenly than any one else; but they reason from the fallacies of the senses confirmed by their knowledges; and because they are able to reason in this way they believe themselves to be wiser than others. 2The fire that kindles with affection their reasonings is the fire of the love of self and the world. Such are those who are in false intelligence and wisdom, and who are meant by the Lord in Matthew:
Seeing they see not, and hearing they hear not, neither do they understand (Matthew 13:13-15).
And again:
These things are hid from the intelligent and wise, and revealed unto babes (Matthew 11:25, 26).
Footnotes:
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353. Falsa intelligentia et sapientia est omnis quae est absque agnitione Divini; qui enim non agnoscunt Divinum, sed pro Divino naturam, illi omnes ex sensuali corporeo cogitant, et sunt mere sensuales, utcunque eruditi et docti in mundo creduntur; 1sed eruditio eorum non ascendit ultra talia quae in mundo coram oculis apparent, quae memoria tenent, et illa paene materialiter intuentur, tametsi eaedem scientiae sunt, quae vere intelligentibus pro formando intellectu inserviunt. Per scientias intelliguntur experimentalia varii generis, physica astronomica, chymica, mechanica, geometrica, anatomica, psychologica, philosophica historica regnorum tum orbis literati, critica, linguae. Antistites qui negant Divinum, nec illi ultra sensualia quae sunt externi hominis elevant cogitationes suas; illa quae Verbi sunt non aliter spectant quam sicut alii scientias, nec faciunt illa res cogitationis aut alicujus intuitionis a mente rationali illustrata; et hoc ex causa, quia interiora eorum clausa sunt, et simul cum illis exteriora proxima interioribus quod clausa sint, est quia verterunt se retro a caelo, et retorserunt illa quae illuc spectare possent, quae sunt interiora mentis humanae, ut prius dictum est. Inde est, quod non videre possint quid verum et bonum, quoniam haec illis in caligine sunt, at falsum et malum in luce. At usque sensuales homines ratiocinari possunt, aliqui solertius et acutius quam alii, sed ex fallaciis sensuum confirmatis per eorum scientifica; et quia ita ratiocinari possunt, etiam ipsi se credunt sapientiores aliis. 2Ignis qui affectione incendit ratiocinia eorum, est ignis amoris sui et mundi. Hi sunt qui in falsa intelligentia et sapientia sunt, et qui a Domino intelliguntur apud Matthaeum,
"Videntes non vident, et audientes non audiunt, nec intelligunt," (13:13-15);
et alibi,
"Abscondita sunt intelligentibus et sapientibus, et revelata infantibus," (11:25-26).
Footnotes: