3428. About those who reject all faith, and only believe in life
There was a certain barely noticeable spirit who spoke with me at first by mental imagery, later applying himself to my left ear but upside down - his head downward and feet upward - and so he spoke into my ear. This he did two or three times, and I did not know who he was or of what persuasion.
Afterwards it was disclosed to me by actual conversation and inner vision that such spirits were the kind who so reject faith that they are unwilling even to hear about faith, or about spiritual knowledge, considering these to be the tree of knowledge that deceived Eve and Adam. They only remain fixed upon life, speaking about life and other matters, and are therefore believers in the opposite - such as those called Lutherans, being those who claim that faith by itself saves without works. These, however, do not say that faith which they so entirely reject that they are unwilling to hear it named, saves, (so they are rather convinced that it condemns), but speak only about life - which of course is what they call life, and is in fact devoid of higher knowledge - claiming that unless there is this kind of life, there is nothing.
