3919. Good spirits, even angelic ones, were indignant, saying that I would be cast out of heaven if I were of that opinion. I was then instructed that truth cannot possibly exist with a person as his or her own, for all truth is from love; with man there is nothing but evil, love of self and of the world, hence whatever is from man, is falsity.
3919. But the good, and also the angelic spirits, indignantly said, that I would be cast out of heaven, if I retained such an opinion. I was then instructed that the true can never exist with man as his proprium, for all truth is from love, while with man there is nothing but evil, the love of self and of the world; whence everything pertaining to man is false.
3919. boni spiritus, etiam angelici, indignati, dicebant, quod ejicerer e coelo, si in tali opinione essem; instructus tunc, quod verum nusquam apud hominem existere possit, ut ejus proprium, nam ab amore omne verum, apud hominem nihil est nisi malum, amor sui et mundi, inde falsum, quicquid ab homine.