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Rh originating in faith alone, and thought originating in charity and faith combined. The mouth then, as being a more interior member than the tongue, is applied to express interior thought; whilst the tongue, as being an exterior member, is applied to express exterior thought. Interior thought, again, is said to speak, and is called wisdom; whilst exterior thought is said to talk, and is called judgment.

137. There is a spiritual telescope, as well as a natural one; and in proportion as man is gifted with intellectual sight, derived from the Word of God, or the Eternal Truth, in the same proportion he forms and perfects his spiritual telescope, because in the same proportion he extends the sphere of intellectual vision, by virtue of which he is enabled to discover numberless objects, which had before been invisible, and to see things near, which had before seemed at an immeasurable distance. The importance and benefit, then, of the spiritual telescope, may here be clearly discerned, since by bringing the great realities of the eternal world near to us, it renders them at the same time more affecting, and thus increases the power of their operation, both on our wills and our understandings. For what is seen at a distance is usually as uninteresting as what is not seen at all; and therefore Jesus Christ perpetually inculcates the edifying lesson, that the kingdom of heaven, or the kingdom of God, is at hand, or near unto us. Thus Jesus Christ, by declaring to us the Truth, supplies us with the blessed materials for the construction of our spiritual telescope (Matt. iii. 2).