openings appear very dark, and to the clefts of rocks, and there hide themselves. And they seek such retreats because they have loved falsities and hated truths; for such caverns and clefts of rocks and darkness also, correspond to falsities; and light corresponds to truths. It is their delight to dwell in such places, and undelightful to them to dwell in open plains.
In like manner do those who have taken delight in clandestine and insidious plots, and in the secret contrivance of fraudulent schemes. These, too, are in those caverns, and enter into chambers so dark that they cannot even see one another, and there they whisper in each other's ears in corners. This is what the delight of their love is turned into.
They who have studied the sciences with no other end than to acquire the reputation of learning, and who have not cultivated their rational faculty by means of them, and have taken delight in the things of memory from pride thence, love sandy places, which they choose in preference to fields aud gardens, because sandy places correspond to such studies.
They who have been acquainted with the doctrinals of their own church and of others, and have not applied any of their knowledge to life, choose for themselves rocky places, and dwell among heaps of stones, shunning places that are cultivated, because they dislike them.
They who have ascribed all things to nature, and
