through the spiritual world or heaven: 6063 , 6307 , 6472 , 9682 , 9683. The
infl ow from the Lord comes into what is good in us and through that
good into what is true, but not the other way around: 5483 [ 5482 ], 5649 ,
6027 , 8685 , 8701 , 10153. What is good enables us to accept the infl ow
from the Lord, but not what is true apart from that good: 8321. Nothing
that fl ows into our thought harms us, only what fl ows into our volition,
because this becomes part of us: 6308.
[ 8 ] There is a general infl ow: 5850. This is a constant energy favor-
ing action in keeping with the design: 6211. This is what fl ows into the
lives of animals: 5850 ; and also into the members of the plant kingdom:
- Further, our thought descends into speech and our intentions into
actions and modes of behavior according to this general infl ow: 5862 ,
5990 , 6192 , 6211.
[ 9 ] On Agents. The spirits who are sent out from communities of
spirits to other communities or to individual spirits are called “agents”:
4403 , 5856. Communications in the other life take place by means of
emissary spirits like these: 4403 , 5856 , 5983. Spirits who are sent out to
act as emissaries do not think for themselves but think from the spir-
its who commissioned them: 5985 , 5986 , 5987. More about these spirits:
5988 , 5989.
The End
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