Heaven and Hell - Swedenborg Foundation

HEAVEN AND HELL 509
Those who deny heaven or who know nothing about it do not know that
there is any influx from heaven (n. 4322, 5649, 6193, 6479).
What influx is, illustrated by comparisons (n. 6128, 6190, 9407).
[7] Everything of life flows in from the first fountain of life, because that is
the source of it; and it continually flows in; thus everything of life is from the
Lord (n. 3001, 3318, 3337, 3338, 3344, 3484, 3619, 3741–3743,
4318–4320, 4417, 4524, 4882, 5847, 5986, 6325, 6468–6470, 6479, 9276,
10196).
Influx is spiritual and not physical, that is, influx is from the spiritual
world into the natural, and not from the natural into the spiritual (n. 3219,
5119, 5259, 5427, 5428, 5477, 6322, 9110).
Influx is through the internal man into the external, or through the spirit
into the body, and not the reverse, because the spirit of man is in the spiritual
world, and his body in the natural (n. 1702, 1707, 1940, 1954, 5119, 5259,
5779, 6322, 9380).
The internal man is in the spiritual world and the external in the natural
world (n. 978, 1015, 3628, 4459, 4523, 4524, 6057, 6309, 9701–9709,
10156, 10472).
There is an appearance that there is an influx from the externals of man
into internals, but this is a fallacy (n. 3721).
With man there is influx into things rational, and through these into
knowledges, and not the reverse (n. 1495, 1707, 1940).
What the order of influx is (n. 775, 880, 1096, 1495, 7270).
There is direct influx from the Lord, and likewise mediate influx through
the spiritual world or heaven (n. 6063, 6307, 6472, 9682, 9683).
The Lord’s influx is into the good in man, and through good into truth,
and not the reverse (n. 5482, 5649, 6027, 8685, 8701, 10153).
Good gives the capacity to receive influx from the Lord, but truth without
good does not (n. 8321).
Nothing that flows into the thought is harmful, but only what flows into
the will, since this is what is appropriated to man (n. 6308).
[8] There is a general influx (n. 5850).