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Rh thence. While therefore the bodily forms and functions correspond in general with the Grand Man, or heaven, and are kept in life and order thence by common influx; they also correspond with the forms and functions of man's natural mind, which are in disorder and, before regeneration, in correspondence with the hells and animated by influx from evil spirits. In so far, therefore, as man's will and thought are evil, he is in correspondence with evil spirits who infest, excite and pour in their evil spheres into his mind; and as hell is the opposite of heaven, and corresponds to the perverted functions of the human form, these evil spheres tend to infest and disorder the bodily functions; though it is of divine order, that corporeal things should be exempt from particular influx. We are told how the conjunction of heaven with the world and with the human form is effected and preserved, and of the way in which man may by the states of his life co-operate with common influx through heaven or disturb it.

"The kingdom of the Lord is a kingdom of ends which are uses; or what is the same, a kingdom of uses which are ends.