AC 6359 - Evil and Falsity Are Hard

AC 6359

. . . the falsity which has been confirmed 
even to persuasion, is hard. 
. . . among spirits and among the angels 
truth from good appears 
and is presented to view as soft, 
but falsity from evil as hard, 
and this in proportion as the falsity from evil 
is more confirmed. 
When persuasion has been brought about 
by means of confirmation from many things, 
this hardness appears there 
like the hardness of bone. 
Such hardness is also like the hardness in this world, 
in that it reflects the rays of light. 
Thus when the light of heaven from the Lord 
falls upon the hardness produced by falsity from evil, 
it is reflected; 
but on the other hand, 
when the light of heaven from the Lord 
falls upon the softness 
produced by truth from good, 
it is received.