2060. Man or spirit ought to know nothing by their own power,

and then for the first time they are growing wise

It was said to spirits that one who knows little, as if it were nothing, for the first time is growing wise, which goes back to that same point [2043]: one who is nothing, is something, or as far as we are nothing, so far we are more, because only then is the Lord with us, and only then are we growing wise. For wisdom is not our own, but the Lord's; and so it is in other matters. The spirits were surprised when I said these words, and now they are thinking and keeping silence, though it is true nevertheless, and comes down to the same point as that the less we have of our own, the more we have from the Lord. 1748, 23 May.