Heaven and Hell (Harley) n. 538

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538. A perception of the sphere of falsity from the evil that flows forth from hell has often been granted me. It was like a perpetual effort to destroy all that is good and true, combined with anger and a kind of fury at not being able to do so, especially an effort to annihilate and destroy the Divine of the Lord, and this because all good and truth are from Him. But out of heaven a sphere of truth from good was perceived, whereby the fury of the effort ascending out of hell was restrained. The result of this was an equilibrium. This sphere from heaven was perceived to come from the Lord alone, although it appeared to come from the angels in heaven. It was from the Lord alone, and not from the angels, because every angel in heaven acknowledges that nothing of good and of truth is from himself; but all is from the Lord.


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