3114. Mankind could not possibly be better led
Spirits imagine that they could have been led differently, and so have become better than they are, thus kept from evils in act, and more such things. The evil cast the blame on the Lord, but they were told that the blame is theirs. By a spiritual mental image I saw that they can never be better led, so there are necessities all the moments of their life, as you may see above [2628-30]. And it has been foreseen from eternity, and thus provided, that all things down to the very least tend toward the final purpose that they may be parts in the grand Man, that is, in the Kingdom of the Lord. Because this is not perceptible to them due to their gazing at details, it was granted them to realize that omnipotence, or infinite Power, can arrange things in [the best] way. For even a human being can lead another almost similarly in some details, when he or she knows the other's evil nature or desire, such that it can be said that