Good on the earthly level is everything connected with
earthly emotion, called pleasure. Truth there is every-
thing qualifying as secular knowledge, called fact. The
earthly dimension must embrace both if it is to be itself.
Facts by themselves, without the pleasure that forms our
emotional response to them, are nothing. The earthly lev-
el receives its life from earthly delight, since only delight
makes it possible for us to learn anything. The pleasure
that constitutes good on the earthly level is something
without facts but not anything more than a liveliness of
the kind seen in children. If the earthly dimension is to
be human, then, it must consist of both; the one entity
is complemented by the other. It receives its life, though,
from goodness.
—Secrets of Heaven 3293
