XXXIX. Swedenhorg. Speaking of the conjunc-

tion of man with God, and its possibility, Swcdenborg says, " that man does not know this from any light of reason, is because fallacies from the believed appearances of the external senses of the body overshadow that light." True C. R. page 336.
Spinoza. This is Spinoza's doctrine, referring to what he calls knowledge of the first kind (see No. III.), which is sensuous, and founded on the images of things from without ; which, so far from giving us a knowledge of God and divine things, " obstructs that knowledge, and never leads to it." Ethics^ part 2, prop. 41, 42.