It is quite clear to me that no truth whatever, not even a truth of nature, can come to light without being at once rejected, and this most of all by the learned of the world, and without falsities being gladly embraced in place of truths. And this is still more the case with spiritual and heavenly truths, as I have been allowed to learn by much experience. For the spirits who are around people on earth are such that as soon as any truth comes forth, even if they do not know that it is a truth, nevertheless feel repugnance and immediately resist it, this being due to their natural character, which is opposed to truth.