It has been shown above (n. 143) that the bent and consequent actual determination of the interiors of all in the other life are in harmony with their love.  The love of those in the hells is the love of self and the world, and these loves are what are signified by the world’s sun and the earth’s moon (see n. 122); and these loves are opposite to love to the Lord and love towards the neighbor;{2} and this is the cause of their turning themselves backwards away from the Lord to this dense darkness.  Moreover, those in the hells dwell likewise in accordance with their quarters, those who are in evil from love of self dwelling from their east to their west, and those who are in the falsities of evil from their south to their north.  But more will be said about this below, where the hells are treated of.

  {Footnote 1} Who and what those are who are called genii, and
  who and what those are who are called spirits (n. 947, 5035,
  5977, 8593, 8622, 8625).

{Footnote 2} Those that are in the loves of self and of the world turn themselves backwards from the Lord (n. 10130, 10189, 10420, 10702).  Love to the Lord and charity towards the neighbor make heaven, while love of self and love of the world make hell, because the two are opposite (n. 2041, 3610, 4225, 4776 6210, 7366, 7369, 7490, 8232, 8678, 10455, 10741-10745).

152.  When an evil spirit comes among good spirits the quarters are usually so confused that the good scarcely know where their east is.  This I have sometimes seen take place, and have also heard about it from spirits who complained of it.

153.  Evil spirits are sometimes seen turned towards the quarters of heaven; and they then have intelligence and perception of truth, but no affection for good; but as soon as they turn back to their own quarters they have no intelligence or perception of truth; and then they declare that the truths they heard and perceived are falsities and not truths, and they wish falsities to be truths.  In respect to this turning I have been told that with the evil the intellectual part of the mind can be so turned, but not the voluntary part; and that this is provided by the Lord to the end that everyone may have the ability to see and acknowledge truths, but that no one can receive truths unless he is in good, since it is good, and never evil, that receives them; also that man has a like ability to the end that he may be made better by means of truths.  Nevertheless, he is made better only so far as he is in good; consequently a man can in like manner be turned to the Lord; but if his life is evil he immediately turns himself back and confirms in himself the falsities of his evil, which are contrary to the truths he had understood and seen; and this takes place when he thinks in himself from his interior states.

154.  XVII.  Changes of state of the angels in heaven.