就像许多常见的动词一样，"知道 "在圣经中的含义是多种多样的，取决于上下文。而在某些情况下--当它与观念或对象联系在一起时，它的灵性意义和自然意义基本上是相同的。

不过有意思的是，当圣经谈到人与人之间的认识，尤其是谈到主与人的认识时，其意义更多的是与人内心的爱的状态有关，而不是任何事实的认识。

如果你仔细想想，这是有道理的。当我们真正 "了解 "一个人的时候，我们的意思是，我们知道他们是什么样的人，他们的动机是什么，他们喜欢什么，他们讨厌什么，是什么让他们生气。这些事情远比知道他们父母的名字，他们在哪里出生或哪一年从学校毕业更重要。

那么，大多数情况下，尤其是应用在人身上，"知道 "与我们对别人的爱的认知，以及有类似爱的人之间可能存在的结合，而不仅仅是事实的集合。

(参考: 详解启示录109; 属天的奥秘2230, 3122, 3863 [6], 4638 [9], 5280, 5309, 6652, 6806, 7209, 8426, 10155 [1-3], 10565)

6307. INFLUX AND THE INTERACTION OF SOUL AND BODY - continued

Experience extending over many years now has allowed me to know about the existence of influx from the spiritual world by way of angels and spirits into people's affections and thoughts, to know it so plainly that nothing could be plainer. I have been made aware of it as an inflowing not merely into thoughts but also into affections. Whenever evil and falsity have flowed in I have been allowed to know which hells they came from, and whenever goodness and truth have flowed in to know which angels they came from. Experience has made me so familiar with all this that at last I have been able to know where every specific aspect of my thoughts and affections originated. Yet my thoughts have been just like those I had before.