Index - Arcana Coelestia - 1 #424
424. Learned (Doctus), Teach (Docere). See also # 1367 Science, # 423 Doctrine, # 716 Understanding, # 1339 Wisdom, # 720 Internal, # 512 External.
Examples showing that the learned do not know what the simple know, 206.
To confirm a dogma is not the part of a wise man, but to see first whether it is true, 4741:3.
The erudite believe less than the simple, because they consult scientifics from a negative spirit, and so deprive themselves of interior vision, 4760:4.
The erudite are less wise than the simple, because they are sensual, and the scientifics are of sensual things, 5089:2.
Very many of the erudite are in the persuasion of falsity, because they confirm falsities by means of scientifics, 5128:3.
The erudite are, for the most part, sensual; the reason, 6316.
The erudite do not comprehend what the spirit is, and what the life after death is; an experience, 6317.
The affection of eloquence and erudition beclouds matters, 6924 e.
To teach d. to flow in; and when spoken respecting the Lord it d. to provide, 7007.
The erudite believe they would receive the Word if it were otherwise written; but they are altogether deceived; and they more than others are atheists and naturalists, 8783.
Several of the learned, who are in the truths of faith from the Word, are in hell-and they who are not in truths, also they who are in falsities, are in heaven-the reason is that they are not in good; illustrated and shown, 9192:2.
The internal with the learned in the Christian world is more closed than it is with the simple; three reasons, 10492:4.
The learned of today wander only in the bark [of the tree of knowledge], and only love to dispute whether a thing is, 3677:2.
The learned know less than the simple; and in what ignorance they are concerning good and truth, from experience, 3747-3749, 4156, 4760.
Scientifics are the means of becoming wise, and the means of becoming insane, 4156:2, 8628, 8629.
The learned shall shine as the stars; what [is meant,] 3820:4.
