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Matteo 24:38

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38 Infatti, come ne’ giorni innanzi al diluvio si mangiava e si beveva, si prendea moglie e s’andava a marito, sino al giorno che Noè entrò nell’arca,

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Spiritual Experiences #4782

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4782. They call spirits from this earth "factual knowledge" because they correspond to knowledge that is not abstract from material things but joined to them. As has been said, on this earth one learns that God is a person from factual knowledge; elsewhere it is not known from factual knowledge. The difference is like that between angels who know from a perception and [its] communication and those who know from themselves.

  
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Thanks to the Academy of the New Church, and Bryn Athyn College, for the permission to use this translation.