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96 and sphere of life is manifold. It is general and particular; it is mediate and immediate. The body, for example, corresponds with the Grand Man and with the Lord, and it corresponds with the spirit within it. It receives an immediate influx of the divine life causing it to live and react upon the influx of its own mind, and upon all other general and particular forms of spiritual influx. It receives a general influx through the human form of heaven conspiring to the integrity of its form and the health of its functions. At the same time it receives a mediate influx through the states of the mind, modifying its order and functions according to the affections and thoughts of the man's life. And this mediate influx again is two-fold: general through the spiritual societies in which the man is, and particular through the particular spirits associated with him; and both the general and the particular influx is two-fold, good and evil; for man is connected by his guardian angels and associate spirits with heaven and hell, in general and particular. With all these forms of influx, nature co-operates, because in nature are ultimate correspondences of all things in man both orderly and disorderly.