277. Influx. Concerning the influx of heaven into the world, and the influx of the soul into all things of the body; from experience, nos. 6053-6058, 6189-6215, 6307-6327, 6466-6495, 6598-6626. Nothing exists from itself, but from something prior to itself; thus all things from a First, nos. 4523, 4524, 6040, 6056. All things even as they have existed, so also they subsist, because subsistence is perpetual existence, nos. 2886, 2888, 3627, 3628, 3648, 4523, 4524, 6040, 6056. Influx takes place according to that order, no. 7270. From this it is evident that all things perpetually subsist from a first Esse, because they have had their existence therefrom, nos. 4523, 4524, 6040, 6056. The all of life flows in from a First, because it is from it - thus from the Lord, nos. 3001, 3318, 3337, 3338, 3344, 3484, 3628, 3741-3743, 4318-4320, 4417, 4524, 4882, 5847, 5986, 6325, 6468-6470, 6479, 9276, 10196. All Existere is from Esse, and nothing can exist unless its own Esse is in it, nos. 4523, 4524, 6040, 6056. All things which a man thinks and wills enter by influx; from experience, nos. 904, 2886-2888, 4151, 4319, 4320, 5846, 5848, 6189, 6191, 6194, 6197-6199, 6213, 7147, 10219. A man's ability of beholding things, of thinking, and of drawing analytical conclusions, is from influx, nos. 2888, 4319, 4320. If the influx from the spiritual world were taken away from a man he could not live for a moment; but the man is still in freedom; from experience, nos. 2887, 5849, 5854, 6321. The life which flows in from the Lord is varied according to a man's state, and according to reception, nos. 2069, 5986, 6472, 7343. The good which flows in from the Lord is with the wicked turned into evil, and truth into falsity; from experience, nos. 3643, 4632. So far as the good and truth, which constantly flow in from the Lord, are received, so far evil and falsity do not obstruct, nos. 2411, 3142, 3147, 5828. All good flows in from the Lord, and all evil from hell, nos. 904, 4151. A man at the present day believes that all things are in himself and from himself, when nevertheless they enter by influx, and he knows from a doctrinal of the Church that all good is from heaven, and all evil from hell, nos. 4249, 6193, 6206. But if he would believe as the case really is, he would not appropriate evil to himself: for he would cast it away from himself into hell; neither would he account good to be his own, and thus would not claim any merit from it, nos. 6206, 6324, 6325. How happy the state of a man would then be, because from the interior he would then see from the Lord both good and evil, no. 6325. Those who deny heaven, or know nothing about it, are ignorant of the fact that there is any influx from it, nos. 4322, 5649, 6193, 6479. What influx is; illustrated by comparisons, nos. 6128, 6190, 9407. Influx is spiritual and not physical; consequently, there is an influx from the spiritual world into the natural, and not from the natural world into the spiritual, nos. 3219, 5119, 5259, 5427, 5428, 5477, 6322, 9109, 9110. Spiritual influx takes place through the internal into the external man, and not conversely, nos. 1702, 1707, 1940, 1954, 5119, 5259, 5779, 6322, 9380: because the internal man is in the spiritual world, and the external in the natural world, nos. 978, 1015, 3628, 4459, 4523, 4524, 6057, 6309, 9701-9709, 10156, 10472. The appearance is as though influx passed from external into internal things, but this is a fallacy, no. 3721. Influx with a man takes place into his rational, and through them into his scientific things, and not conversely, nos. 1495, 1707, 1940. The nature of the order of influx, nos. 775, 880, 1096, 1495, 7270. There is an immediate influx from the Lord, and also a mediate influx through the spiritual world, that is, through heaven, nos. 6063, 6307, 6472, 9682, 9683. The Lord's immediate influx takes place into the minutest singulars, nos. 6058, 6474-6478, 8717, 8728. Concerning the Lord's mediate influx through heaven, nos. 4067, 6982, 6985, 6996; it takes place through the spirits and angels who are adjoined to the man, nos. 697, 5846-5866. Through angels the Lord flows into the ends from which, and for the sake of which, a man thinks, wills, and acts, nos. 1317, 1645, 5846, 5854; and thus He flows into those things which belong to conscience with a man, nos. 6207, 6213. Through spirits however He flows into the thoughts, and from them into the things of the memory, nos. 4186, 5854, 5858, 6192, 6193, 6198, 6199, 6319. It is difficult for man to believe this, no. 6214. The Lord flows into first, and at the same time into last, things, that is, He flows into inmost, and at the same time into outermost, things, and in what manner, nos. 5147, 5150, 6473, 7004, 7007, 7270. The Lord's influx with a man is into good, and through good into truth, and not conversely, nos. 5482, 5649, 6027, 8685, 8701, 10153. Good imparts the faculty of receiving influx from the Lord, but not truth apart from good, no. 8321. Nothing is hurtful that enters into the thought, but that which enters into the will, because this is appropriated to the man, no. 6308. The Divine in the highest parts is tacit and peaceful but in proportion as it descends with a man towards the lower parts, it becomes unpeaceful and noisy, on account of the things therein being without order, no. 8823. The quality of the Lord's influx with the prophets, no. 6212. There is a general influx; which is described, no. 5850. It consists in a constant effort of acting according to order, no. 6211. This influx takes place into the lives of animals, no. 5850. And also into the subjects of the vegetable kingdom, no. 3648. Thought also in accordance with general influx descends with man into speech, and will into gestures, nos. 5862, 5990, 6192,6211.