Potts(1905-1910) 6598
6598. Continuation about influx, and about the interaction of the soul and the body. It is known that one man excels another in the capacity to understand and perceive what is honorable in moral life, what is just in civil life, and what is good in spiritual life. The cause of this consists in the elevation of the thought to the things that pertain to heaven, whereby the thought is withdrawn from the external things of sense; for they who think solely from things of sense cannot see one whit of what is honorable, just, and good, and therefore they trust to others and speak much from the memory, and thereby appear to themselves wiser than others. But they who are able to think above the things of sense, provided the things in the memory have been set in order, possess a greater capacity than others to understand and perceive, and this according to the degree in which they view things from what is interior.
Elliott(1983-1999) 6598
6598. INFLUX AND THE INTERACTION OF SOUL AND BODY - continued
It is well known that one person is endowed with a greater ability than another to understand and perceive what it is to behave honourably in private life, to be upright in public life, and to seek what is good in one's spiritual life. The reason why he has that greater ability lies in the fact that his thought has been raised towards the things of heaven and is consequently drawn away from the level of the external senses. For people whose thought does not rise above the level of the senses cannot begin to see what is honourable, upright, or good. They therefore rely on what others think, and base most of what they say on matters stored in the memory, and in doing this seem to themselves to be wiser than others. But those who can think on a level above the senses possess, if the contents of their memory are all in order, a greater ability than others to understand and perceive. Their ability depends on the height of the interior standpoint from which they look at things.
Latin(1748-1756) 6598
6598. Continuatio de Influxu et de Commercio animae et corporisNotum est quod unus homo prae altero polleat facultate intelligendi et percipiendi quid honestum in vita morali, quid justum in vita civili, et quid bonum in vita spirituali; causa consistit in elevatione cogitationis ad illa quae caeli sunt, inde abducitur cogitatio {1} sensualibus externis; qui enim ex sensualibus solum cogitant, ne hilum possunt videre quid honestum, justum et bonum; {2}quare fidunt aliis, et {3}ex memoria multum loquuntur, et per hoc sibi apparent aliis sapientiores; qui autem supra sensualia cogitare possunt, si ordinata sunt illa quae in memoria, in facultate intelligendi et percipiendi prae aliis sunt, et hoc secundum gradum intuitionis ab interiore. @1 i ab externis et$ @2 et$ @3 inde$