6053. About deceit, that it is atrocious because it enters into a person's inner faculties, into even the rational faculty, which is the innermost natural faculty, and it very tightly closes the spiritual mind, in which is heaven. Describe their natures.
Those who are going to be part of the New Jerusalem must especially avoid these three.
6053. As regards deceit, the reason why it is execrable, is because it enters man's interiors, even to the Rational, which is the inmost Natural, and there tightly closes the spiritual mind, in which heaven is. The quality of such persons might be described.
These three things, especially, those shun who will be of the New Jerusalem.
6053. De dolo, quod nefandus, causa quia intrat interiora hominis, usque in rationale, quod est intimum naturale, et ibi arctissime claudat mentem spiritualem, in quo est coelum, quales sunt, describatur. Haec tria imprimis fugient qui e nova Hierosolyma erunt.