6069. What the spiritual is
The spiritual thinks in terms of quality, and the natural in terms of quantity; thus the spiritual is not limited and circumscribed as is the natural. In the spiritual world there are numbers, measures, spaces, times and substances, and they also see spaces, substances, and they have a feeling of periods of time; they speak of numbers and measures, but they think about them as regards qualities, in as much as they stand for these. נI realized that the spiritual cannot in any way think naturally, but it nevertheless flows into the natural's rational faculty as cause into effect.
6069. WHAT THE SPIRITUAL IS.
The spiritual may think what is the nature and extent of the Natural. Thus the Spiritual is not finited and bounded, as the Natural is. There are in the spiritual world, numbers, measures, spaces, times, and materials, and those there also see them: they see spaces and materials, and perceive times; they have names for numbers and measures; but they think of those things from quality, as, also, [what they] signify. - It was perceived that the Spiritual cannot, by any means, be thought of naturally, but yet that it inflows into the Rational-natural, as cause into effect.
6069. Spirituale quid
Quod spirituale cogitet quale et naturale quantum, ita spirituale non est finitum et terminatum sicut est naturale, sunt in spirituali mundo numeri, mensurae, spatia, tempora et materiae, et quoque vident spatia, materias, et percipiunt tempora, nominant numeros et mensuras, sed cogitant de illis ex quali, sicut etiam significant. - Perceptum quod spirituale non possit ullo modo naturaliter cogitari, sed usque quod influat in rationale naturale sicut causa in effectum.