glued together and ossified.  With those that have wished to penetrate into Divine arcana by means of learning, especially of a philosophical kind, with an unwillingness to believe until convinced by such proofs, the memory appears like a dark substance, of such a nature as to absorb the rays of light and turn them into darkness.  With those that have practiced deceit and hypocrisy it appears hard and bony like ebony, which reflects the rays of light.  But with those that have been in the good of love and the truths of faith there is no such callous appearance, because their inner memory transmits the rays of light into the outer; and in its objects or ideas as in their basis or their ground, the rays terminate and find delightful receptacles; for the outer memory is the out most of order in which, when goods and truths are there, the spiritual and heavenly things are gently terminated and find their seat.

467.  Men living in the world who are in love to the Lord and charity toward the neighbor have with them and in them angelic intelligence and wisdom, but it is then stored up in the inmosts of the inner memory; and they are not at all conscious of it until they put off corporeal things.  Then the natural memory is laid asleep and they awake into their inner memory, and then gradually into angelic memory itself.

468.  How the rational faculty may be cultivated shall also be told in a few words.  The genuine rational faculty consists of truths and not of falsities; whatever consists of falsities is not rational.  There are three kinds of truths, civil, moral, and spiritual.  Civil truths relate to matters of judgment and of government in kingdoms, and in general to what is just and equitable in them.  Moral truths pertain to the matters of everyone’s life which have regard to companionships and social relations, in general to what is honest and right, and in particular to virtues of every kind.  But spiritual truths relate to matters of heaven and of the church, and in general to the good of love and the truth of faith. [2] In every man there are three degrees of life (see above, n. 267).  The rational faculty is opened to the first degree by civil truths, to the second degree by moral truths, and to the third degree by spiritual truths.  But it must be understood that the rational faculty that consists of these truths is not formed and opened by man’s knowing them, but by his living according to them; and living according to them means loving them from spiritual affection; and to love truths from spiritual affection is to love what is just and equitable because it is just and equitable, what is honest and right because it is honest and right, and what is good and true because it is good and true; while living according to them and loving them from the bodily affection is loving them for the sake of self and for the sake of one’s reputation, honor or gain.  Consequently, so far as man loves these truths from a bodily affection