How happy man’s
state would be if he believed that all
good flows in from the
Lord and all evil from hell. (n.
6325).
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).
This is a continual
effort to act in accordance with order
(n. 6211).
This influx is into the lives of animals (n. 5850).
Also into the subjects of the vegetable kingdom (n. 3648).
It is in accord with
this general influx that thought
falls into speech with
man, and will into acts and
movements (n. 5862,
5990, 6192, 6211).
Subject spirits.
[9] Spirits sent forth
from societies of spirits to other
societies and to other
spirits, are called “subjects” (n.
4403, 5856).


