XXXIV. Swedenhorg. " It is to be known that the

faculty of elevating the understanding, even to the in- telligence in which the angels of heaven are, is from
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creation inherent in every man, in the bad as well as the good." True G. R. page 397.
Spinoza. " The intellectual love of God (the per- fection of the mind) is eternal," and " the mind has eternally those perfections we have supposed it to ac- quire." Ethics^ part 5, prop. 33, schol.