I spoke with some in the other life about faith who thought that faith without works saves, or is a saving faith. For when they just say this, many of them who do not understand separate belief in thought and in the understanding from belief in act, and then do not care at all about how they live, supposing that then they must be saved, even though the Lord said that the tree is known by its fruit [Matt. 7:20, Luke 6:44]. Then I was prompted to say that action is real belief, and by a spiritual mental image directed to the grasp and understanding of the spirits, I saw this clearly, namely, that faith in action is true belief, thus action is [true faith], because they are inseparable. The action lives from the faith that is in the action, that is, in the works of charity, because they are inseparable. 1748, 2 July.