A doubt has occurred to me two or three times-since angels and spirits in the greatest body interact with the human being and its individual members and parts, and since efforts come from that source that activate [see 2171] wherever they are given the opportunity, or wherever they are yielded to (as may be known from certain truths of human philosophy if attention is paid to them)-so a doubt has occurred as to how the first human being and those who were first born could have come forth before this greatest body had been formed. I received a reply by a spiritual mental image, which is convincing and has been corroborated, that the first human being and those first born were led by none other than the Lord Alone, for the Lord is the all in all things, nor is there any endeavor from individuals in heaven and the spiritual world, except from the Lord, either before a human being was born or after a human being was born. For just as the human in all its levels existed before its birth, as after, so without Him nothing could be created, nor having been created keep on existing. So He Alone sustains the human race as in times past, but now by means of angels and spirits, and also directly apart from angels and spirits, as has also been confirmed by experience about which I believe I have spoken earlier [2020, 2065-6, 2071]. For the human race has been His from the beginning, so He takes care of all. 1748, 13 July.