68. Regarding the elevation of a person's interior elements which are those of his mind, the following, too, must be known. Everything created by God has present within it a reaction, life alone being capable of action, and the reaction is occasioned by the action of life. This reaction appears as though it were a property of the thing created because it occurs when the thing is acted upon. Thus the reaction in a person appears as though it were his, because he has no other sensation than that life is his, when in fact the person is only a recipient of life. It is because of this that a person prompted by his evil heredity reacts against God. However, to the extent that he believes all his life to be from God, and that all goodness of life is owing to the action of God, and all evil of life to the reaction of man, to that extent his reaction becomes one of action, and the person acts in concert with God as though of himself. The equilibrium of all things is owing to a simultaneous action and reaction, and everything must be in equilibrium. This much has been said to keep people from believing that they ascend to God of themselves rather than from the Lord.