AC 6907 - The Light of Evil, the Light of Heaven

AC 6907 [3]

Those who are in evil of life,
and from this in falsity,
are in the light of the world,
for this is the light by which intellectual objects are seen;
this light, with those who are in falsity from evil,
has a ruddy glow,
and the more so in proportion
as they are more in falsity from evil.
The glory of the world,
which is from the love of self,
kindles this light, and causes its glow;
and because this is so,
truths appear therein wholly as falsities,
and falsities wholly as truths.
The reason is that heavenly light cannot flow
into a beam of that light,
but becomes thick darkness when with it;
hence it is that such are in a strong persuasion
in favor of falsities against truths;
because in that light they see them in this way.
But with those who are in truths from good,
the light of the world does not glow, but is obscure;
while the light of heaven with them
is clear and bright,
and because this light is so clear,
truths appear in it as truths,
and falsities as falsities.
For when this light falls upon falsities,
which in the light of the world separate
from the light of heaven
appear as truths,
it not only obscures but altogether extinguishes them.
This light, namely, the light of heaven,
becomes successively brighter and brighter with them,
and at last so much so
that the light of the world cannot be compared to it.
From all this appears the reason why
those who are in falsities from evil,
from so strong a persuasion
oppose themselves to those who are in truths,
which opposition has been treated of above.