492. I shall add to this the following account of an experience. I have on several occasions heard sayings about the good of charity coming down from heaven, passing through the world of spirits, and penetrating right to the depths of hell. As these sayings descended, they were turned into ideas obviously contrary to the good of charity, and finally into ones full of hatred directed against the neighbour. This was an indication that everything coming from the Lord is good, but is turned into evil by the spirits in hell. The same happened with some truths of faith, which in their descent turned into falsities which were the opposite of the truths. It is the receiving form which turns what impinges on it into what agrees with itself.