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 earth, in the savage and venomous animals, and in noxious plants and poisonous matter of the earth. Yet the Creator's loving care for those in hell is not diminished. Since God is infinite love, He can not cease to do for mankind, whatsoever sins they commit. He leaves nothing undone that will minister to those who have become abortions of the universe because they persistently willed against being born into Creation's order. They are gathered into an order, and are the spiritual opposites of the heavens, where spiritual influx terminates, and where, through their evil uses, there is reaction. The hells constitute a kingdom of negative uses, in performing which they delight. O Lord * * * the wicked * * * are Thy sword." Their delights are infernal, because they are the delights of self-love, while the joys of heaven are from the love of use. They are governed by the one Lord whose tender mercies are over all. "If I make up my bed in hell, behold. Thou art there." The hells are not in the Grand Man. They together constitute the "great dragon," the Devil.

Goodness and truth from the Lord flow down through man's interiors to the ultimates of the natural mind. When evils and falsities are in the natural mind, the influx is turned into what is evil and false; or in other words, the commu-