348. All forms of use, both good and evil, come from a spiritual origin, thus from the sun where the Lord is, and this may be clarified by the following experience. I was told that goods and truths were sent down through the heavens by the Lord to the hells, and that on being received through their degrees to the deepest of them there, these same goods and truths were turned into evils and falsities opposite in character to the goods and truths sent down. This occurred for the reason that everything that flows in is turned by its recipient vessels into such things as accord with their forms, just as the white light of the sun is turned into hideous colors and into blackness in objects whose substances are inwardly in such a form as to snuff out and extinguish the light, and as the sun's warmth is turned by swamps, excrement and dead bodies into foul odors. It can be seen from this that even evil forms of use come from the spiritual sun, but that they are good forms of use turned into evil ones in hell. It is apparent, therefore, that the Lord did not and does not create anything but good forms of use, while hell produces evil ones.