Heavenly Doctrine (Tafel) n. 171

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171. Concerning Falsity. There are innumerable kinds of falsity, namely, as many as there are evils; and evils and falsities are according to their origins, which are many, nos. 1188, 1212, 4729, 4822,7574. There is a falsity from evil, that is, the falsity of evil; and there is an evil from falsity, that is, the evil of falsity; and there is again falsity therefrom, nos. 1679, 2243. From a falsity which has been assumed as a principle, falsities flow in a long series, nos. 1510, 1511, 4717, 4721. There is a falsity from the lusts of the love of self and of the world; and there is a falsity from the fallacies of the senses, nos. 1295, 4729. There are falsities of religion, and there are falsities of ignorance, nos. 4729, 8318, 9258. There is falsity in which is good, and falsity in which there is no good, nos. 2683, 9304, 10109, 10302. There is what is falsified, nos. 7318, 7319, 10648. The falsity of evil, its quality, nos. 6359, 7272, 9304, 10302. The evil of falsity, its quality, nos. 2408, 4818, 7272, 8265, 8279. The falsities from evil appear like rain-clouds and impure waters over the hells, nos. 8137, 8138, 8146. Such waters also signify falsities, nos. 739, 790, 7307. Those who are in hell speak falsities from evil, nos. 1693, 7351, 7352, 7357, 7392, 7699. Those who are in evil cannot do otherwise than think what is false when they think from themselves, no. 7437. There are falsities of religion which agree with good, and such as disagree, no. 9258. If falsities of religion do not disagree with good, they produce evil only with those who are in evil of life, no. 8318. Falsities of religion are not imputed to those who are in good, but to those who are in evil, nos. 8051, 8149. Every falsity may be confirmed, and when it has been confirmed it appears like truth, nos. 5033, 6865, 8521, 8780. The confirmation of falsities of religion ought to be carefully guarded against, because chiefly by such means arises a persuasion of falsity, nos. 845, 8780. How injurious the persuasion of falsity, nos. 794, 806, 5096, 7686. The persuasion of falsity constantly stirs up confirmations of falsity, nos. 1510, 1511, 1677. Those who are in the persuasion of falsity are inwardly bound, no. 5096. When those who are in a strong persuasion of falsity, in the other life approach others, they close up their Rational, and as it were suffocate them, nos. 3895, 5128. Truths which are not genuine, and also falsities, may be consociated with genuine truths; but such falsities as contain good, and not falsities in which is evil, nos. 3470, 3471, 4551, 4552, 7344, 8149, 9298. Falsities in which there is good are accepted by the Lord as truths, nos. 4736, 8149. The good, the quality of which comes from a falsity, is accepted by the Lord, if there be ignorance, and in it innocence, and a good end, no. 7887. Evil falsities truth, because it leads the truth away towards evil, and applies it to evil, nos. 8094, 8149. Truth is said to be falsified, when through confirmation it has been applied to evil, no. 8062. Falsified truth is opposed to truth and good, no. 8062. Further statements concerning the falsifications of truth, see nos. 7318, 7319, 10648.


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