§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 ,
- 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 ,
- 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