Thinking and coming to a conclusion from what is interior and prior is to do so from aims and causes leading to effects; but thinking and coming to a conclusion from what is exterior or posterior is to do so from effects leading to causes and aims. This is to proceed in the wrong direction, the other to do so in the right direction. For thinking and coming to a conclusion from aims and causes is to do so from the consideration of kinds of good and truth in the upper region of the mind, leading to effects in the lower region. Human rationality itself is from creation like this. But thinking and coming to a conclusion from effects is to guess causes and aims from the lower region of the mind, where bodily sense impressions with their appearances and fallacies are rife. This is essentially no different from confirming what is false and is longed for; and on seeing these confirmed believing that they are the truths of wisdom and the goodness of the love of this. It is much the same with the love of babies and children in the case of the spiritual and the natural. The spiritual love them from what is prior, that is, in the right order; but the natural love them from what is posterior, so in the wrong order. These considerations have been adduced merely to prove the previous point.