1469. For those who take up truths from the Word of the Lord as premises, and then confirm them by philosophical material or arguments derived from nature, do not suffer any hardship provided they do not do so out of self-love. On the other hand, those who do so from their own ingenuity, assuming certain premises and from them trying to hatch out or support spiritual and heavenly truths, do suffer hardship. But regarding those varieties of hardship, I am not permitted as yet to state anything definite, because I am in the company of heavenly beings, not spiritual ones. 1748, 17 March.