16. The Lord said - and this in several passages - that if there was faith, so it should be done. The cause for this was that it should first be implanted in their minds that the Lord is God and Omnipotent. For this is the fundamental principle of all the teachings of the Church. Knowledge precedes, in the case of everyone. But not until man lives the life of faith which is charity does this knowledge become faith. That which is prior belongs to knowledge, for the Lord makes faith from cognitions* with man. * The term cognitiones, here used in the Latin, is translated "cognitions" to distinguish these knowledges from those that are meant by the Latin scientifica also used in the Writings of Swedenborg. Two of the meanings most commonly associated with cognitiones are (i) a particular species of knowledge, as knowledges of the Word, of good and truth, or of spiritual things (AC 24, 3665, 9945; NJHD 51; HH 111, 351, 469, 474, 517, 518); and (ii) a higher type of knowledge which is from understanding and perception (AC 1486-7; HH 110, 353).