TCR 68, 69[3]
The reason a person has from Divine Omnipotence
power against evils and falsities to the extent
that he lives in accordance with the Divine order
is that no one, except God alone,
can resist evils and the falsities they produce.
For all evils and their falsities come from hell,
and there they hold together as a unit,
exactly as all kinds of good and so truths do in heaven.
. . . in the sight of God the whole of heaven is like one person,
and in the opposite case hell is like one monstrous giant.
Thus acting against one evil and its falsity
is like taking on that monstrous giant or all hell.
No one can do this except God, because He is omnipotent.
Every person, as long as he lives in the world,
treads a path mid-way between heaven and hell;
and he is in equilibrium, that is,
he has free will to look up to God or down to hell.
If he looks up to God,
he acknowledges that all wisdom comes from God,
and his spirit is really present among the angels in heaven.
The person who looks down,
as everyone does whose evil puts him under the power of falsities,
is in his spirit really among the devils in hell.
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