Heaven and Hell: The Portable New Century Edition

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§603 freedom & inflow: references 369


6191 , 6194 , 6197 , 6198 , 6199 , 6213 , 7147 , 10219. Our ability to look into


things, think, and draw analytic conclusions comes from infl ow: 1288


[ 1285 ], 4319 , 4320. We could not live for a moment if we were deprived of


the infl ow from the spiritual world, [from] experience: 2887 , 5849 , 5854 ,



  1. The life that fl ows in from the Lord varies depending on our state


and our openness to it: 2069 , 5986 , 6472 , 7343. In evil people, the good


that fl ows in from the Lord is turned into evil, and the truth into falsity;


from experience: 3643 [ 3642 or 3743 ], 4632. We accept the good and true


things that fl ow in from the Lord to the extent that what is evil and false


does not bar the way: 2411 , 3142 , 3147 , 5828.


[ 6 ] Everything good fl ows in from the Lord and everything evil from


hell: 904 , 4151. Nowadays people believe that everything is in themselves


and from themselves, when actually everything is fl owing in, as they


might learn from the doctrine of the church, which teaches that every-


thing good comes from the Lord and everything evil from the Devil:


4249 , 6193 , 6206. If our belief were in accord with doctrine, we would


not claim evil as our own or make good our own: 6206 , 6324 , 6325. How


happy our state would be if we believed that everything good fl ows in


from the Lord and everything evil from hell: 6325. People who deny


heaven or know nothing about it do not realize that there is any infl ow


from it: 4322 , 5649 , 6193 , 6479. What infl ow is, illustrated by compari-


sons: 6428 [ 6128 ], 6480 [ 6190 ], 9407.


[ 7 ] All of life fl ows in from the fi rst wellspring of life because this


is its source; and it is constantly fl owing in, so it comes from the Lord:


3001 , 3318 , 3237 [ 3337 ], 3338 , 3344 , 3484 , 3619 , 3741 , 3742 , 3743 , 4318 , 4319 ,


4320 , 4417 , 4524 , 4882 , 5847 , 5986 , 6325 , 6468 , 6469 , 6470 , 6479 , 9276 ,



  1. The infl ow is spiritual and not physical, which means that the


infl ow is from the spiritual world into the natural and not from the natu-


ral into the spiritual: 3219 , 5119 , 5259 , 5427 , 5428 , 5477 , 6322 , 9110 , 9111


[ 9109 ]. The infl ow comes through the inner person into the outer, or


through the spirit into the body, and not the other way around, because


our spirit is in the spiritual world and our body in the natural world:


1702 , 1707 , 1940 , 1954 , 5119 , 5259 , 5779 , 6322 , 9380 [ 9110 ]. The inner per-


son is in the spiritual world and the outer in the natural world: 978 , 1015 ,


3628 , 4459 , 4523 , 4524 , 6057 , 6309 , 9701 – 9709 , 10156 , 10472. It seems as


though there were an infl ow from our outer natures into our inner, but


this is an illusion: 3721. There is an infl ow into our rational workings and


through these into our information processing, and not the other way


around: 1495 , 1707 , 1940. What the pattern of infl ow is like: 775 , 880 ,


1096 , 1495 , 7270. The infl ow comes directly from the Lord and indirectly

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