2688. One who lives with faith in the Lord, and so lives in the Lord, cannot possibly suffer violence from evil spirits, being in the order of earthly, spiritual and heavenly things
Due to a general spiritual mental image I am given the insight that one who lives in order cannot possibly suffer violence from evil. For the whole of heaven is held in order by the Lord Alone, because He Alone is order. There is an order of heavenly, from that of spiritual, and from that of earthly things. In this order the universal heaven is kept by the Lord, and if it were not kept in order by the Lord Alone, the whole of it would perish, for all things to the very least have their beginnings from Him. The order of spiritual and heavenly things is faith and all facets of belief in the Lord. Earthly things are like vessels, instruments and tools, and truths of nature, which regard earthly uses and goals, are the vessels into which spiritual, and into these heavenly things are slipped, without anyone's knowledge and consciousness of when and how, by the Lord Alone-not by the angelic heaven, for the Lord is the All in all things of goodness and truth. 1748, 26 July.