TCR 659 - imputed or attributed

TCR 659
No evil that a person thinks is imputed to him,
because he was so created as to be able to understand
and thus think either good or evil
- good from the Lord and evil from hell -
for he is between these two,
and from his freedom of choice in spiritual things
has the ability to choose either one or the other.
. . . If the person then adopts the evils,
they are received by the old will and added to those in it;
but if he adopts goods with truths,
the Lord forms a new will and a new understanding above the old,
and there
by means of truths
He gradually implants new goods,
and by means of these
subjugates the evils that are below and removes them,
and arranges all things in order.
. . . if the evils that a person thinks were to be imputed to him,
reformation and regeneration would be impossible.