297. As to what further concerns the conjunction of heaven with the human race, it ought to be known that the Lord Himself inflows with each man, in accordance with the order of heaven, both into his inmosts and into his ultimates, and disposes him to receive heaven, governing his ultimates from his inmosts, and at the same time his inmosts from his ultimates, thus holding each thing and all things in connection in man. This influx of the Lord is called immediate influx; while the other influx that is effected through spirits is called mediate influx. The latter is maintained by means of the former. Immediate influx, which is that of the Lord Himself, is from His Divine Human, and is into man's will and through his will into his understanding, and thus into his good and through his good into his truth, or what is the same thing, into his love and through his love into his faith, but not the reverse; still less is it into faith apart from love, or into truth apart from good or into understanding that is not from will. This Divine influx is unceasing, and in the case of the good is received in good, but not in the case of the evil. With them it is either rejected or suffocated or perverted; and in consequence they have an evil life which, in the spiritual sense, is death.# # There is an immediate influx from the Lord, and also a mediate influx through the spiritual world (n. 6063, 6307, 6472, 9682, 9683). The Lord's immediate influx is into the least particulars of all things (n. 6058, 6474-6478, 8717, 8728). The Lord inflows into firsts and at the same time into ultimates-in what manner (n. 5147, 5150, 6473, 7004, 7007, 7270). The Lord's influx is into the good with man, and through the good into truth and not the reverse (n. 5482, 5649, 6027, 8685, 8701, 10153). The life that inflows from the Lord varies in accordance with the state of man and in accordance with reception (n. 2069, 5986, 6472, 7343). With the evil the good that inflows from the Lord is turned into evil and the truth into falsity;fron experience (n. 3642, 4632). The good and the truth therefrom that continually inflow from the Lord are received just to the extent that evil and falsity therefrom do not obstruct (n. 2411, 3142, 3147, 5828).