speak against the civil laws, the moral virtues, and matters of doctrine
and spiritual life. So those do who are in lusts of evil but want to
appear to the world not to be in them.

[2] Many also, as they listen to others, think to themselves, "Do those
speaking think inwardly in themselves as they think in utterance? Are
they to be believed or not? What do they intend?" Flatterers and
hypocrites notoriously possess a twofold thought. They can be
self-restrained and guard against the interior thought's being disclosed,
and some can hide it more and more deeply and bar the door against its
appearing. That a man possesses external and internal thought is also
plain in that from his interior thought he can behold the exterior
thought, can reflect on it, too, and judge whether or not it is evil. The
human mind is such because of the two faculties, called liberty and
rationality, which one has from the Lord. Unless he possessed internal
and external of thought from these faculties, a man could not perceive
and see an evil in himself and be reformed. In fact, he could not speak
but only make sounds like a beast.

105. The internal of thought comes out of the life's love, its affections
and the perceptions from them. The external of thought is from what is in
the memory, serving the life's love for confirmation and as means to its
end. From childhood to early manhood a person is in the external of
thought from an affection for knowledge, which is then his internal; from
the life's love born in one from parents something of lust and hence of
disposition issues, too. Later, however, his life's love is as he lives,
and its affections and the perceptions from them make the internal of his
thought. From his life's love comes a love of means; the enjoyments of
these means and the information drawn thereby from the memory make his
external of thought.