107. If man did not have the faculty of reception and also of thinking as of himself, nothing could have been said about faith, for neither does faith originate with man. Without this faculty man would be like chaff in the wind, and would stand as if lifeless with mouth open and hands hanging down, waiting for influx, thinking nothing and doing nothing in those matters which concern his salvation. He indeed does nothing in those matters, but yet he does respond as of himself. But these subjects will be set in still clearer light in the treatises on Angelic Wisdom.