take place in the rational appear in the natural plane as an image of many things together in a mirror." (Ibid., 3368.)
"Rational things, or what is the same, appearances of truth, that is, spiritual truths, are not knowledges [acquired by the senses, F. S.], but are in knowledges; for they are of the rational or internal man. For knowledges being of the natural man are vessels which receive rational things." (Ibid., 3391.)
"When man is in the world his rational is distinct from his natural [plane of thought]; insomuch that he can be withdrawn from external sensuous things and in some degree from interior sensuous things and be in his rational, thus in spiritual thought." (Ibid., 3498.)
"It is not he who can ratiocinate from scientific facts who enjoys the rational faculty. A fatuous lumen produces this skill. But he enjoys the rational who can see clearly that good is good and truth truth; consequently that evil is evil and falsity falsity. Thus the scientific [sensuous] knowledges are means for perfecting the rational faculty and also for destroying it; and those who by means of scientific knowledges have destroyed their rational faculty are more stupid than those versed in no knowledges." (Ibid., 4156.)
"The faculty of thinking rationally regarded in itself, is not of man, but of God with him. Upon this depends human reason in general." (Divine Love and Wisdom, 23.)
