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86 and falsities, therefore, attract infernal spirits who induce disorders in the spiritual body, whence they are derived into the interior fluids of the natural body, with a continual tendency to disease. "Every disease incident to the human race, comes from sin; every disease also corresponds to its own evil; because everything of the life of man comes from the spiritual world, wherefor if his spiritual life becomes diseased, evil is also thence derived into his natural life and becomes a disease there."

"The reason why diseases have correspondence with those who are in the hells is because diseases correspond to the lusts and passions of the mind. These are the origins of disease; for the common origins of disease are intemperance, luxuries of various kinds, corporeal pleasures, also envyings, hatreds, revenges, lasciviousness, and the like, which destroy a man's interiors, and when these are destroyed the exteriors suffer and draw him into disease and death." Thence it is manifest, diseases also have correspondence with the spiritual world, but with the hells which are opposite to heaven. All the infernals induce disease but with a difference,