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Rh one. He is still a recipient of Divine life; it flows in by the unconscious inmost soul, and the closed internal mind. But when it reaches his conscious will it is turned into its opposite corresponding love and in his understanding perverts every known truth into a corresponding falsity. Of such is hell. These evils and falsities pressing into nature originate every evil form, disorderly force, and injurious combination known to nature. Evil, therefore, in man and in the spiritual world and in nature, is not the "negation of the one only life," but the perversion of created recipient forms into corresponding opposites.

The Doctor says "there are two factors in the production of phenomena—God's will and man's will"; and proceeds to explain as follows: