373.(未翻译或原文无此节)
373. One can also deduce from this the character of a person in whom a native instinct, or a nature derived from hereditary root, goes into spiritual matters, because such people think that they have all and every least thing from themselves, and thus, that they control everything.
373. Hence also it can be concluded of what quality is the man with whom the natural instinct, or nature from the hereditary root, enters into spiritual things, because such men suppose that they have each and all things from themselves and thus rule all things. 1
Footnotes:
1. This paragraph appears to have been added when Swedenborg was making the Index.
373. Inde etiam concludi potest, qualis homo sit, penes quem naturalis instinctus seu natura ex haereditaria radice, intrat in spiritualia, quia ex se putant omnia et singula habere, et sic regere omnia.