278. The Influx of Life with Man in particular. There is one only life, from which all both in heaven and in the world live, nos. 1954, 2021, 2536, 2658, 2886-2889, 3001, 3484, 3742, 5847, 6467. This life is from the Lord alone; illustrated by various things, nos. 2886-2889, 3344, 3484, 4319, 4320, 4524, 4882, 5986, 6325, 6468-6470, 9276, 10196. The Lord is Life itself; see John i. 1, 4; v. 26; xiv. 6. Life from the Lord flows in with angels, spirits, and men, in a wonderful manner, nos. 2886-2889, 3337, 3338, 3484, 3742. The Lord flows in from His Divine Love, which is of such a character, that it wills that what is its own shall be another's, nos. 3742, 4320. All love is such a quality; the Divine Love, consequently, is infinitely more, so, nos. 1820, 1865, 2253, 6872. Life thus appears as though it were within man, and not as if it were flowing in, nos. 3742, 4320. Life appears as if it were within man also, for this reason, that the principal cause which is life from the Lord, and the instrumental cause which is the recipient form, act as one cause, which is felt in the instrumental cause, no. 6325. The chief thing of the wisdom and intelligence of the angels consists in perceiving and knowing that the all of life is from the Lord, no. 4318. Concerning the joy of the angels arising from their not living from themselves, but from the Lord, which was perceived and confirmed by their speech to me, no. 6469. The evil are not willing to be convinced that life enters by influx, no. 3743. Doubts concerning the influx of life from the Lord cannot be removed, so long as fallacies, ignorance, and a negative principle prevail, no. 6479. All who are of the Church know, that all good and truth are from heaven, that is, through heaven from the Lord, and that all evil and falsity are from hell; when yet the all of life has relation to good and truth, and to evil and falsity, so much so indeed, that apart from them there is nothing of life, nos. 2893, 4151. This also is declared by a doctrinal of the Church, which is derived from the Word, no. 4249. Nevertheless a man does not believe that life enters by influx, no. 4249. If communication and conjunction with spirits and angels were taken away, a man would instantly die, no. 2887. From this it is also evident, that the all of life flows in from the First Esse of life, because nothing has existed from itself, but from things prior to itself, and thus each and all things from a First; and because, even as a thing has existed, so also it is bound to subsist, subsistence being perpetual existence, nos. 4523, 4524. Angels, spirits, and men, have been created in order to receive life, wherefore they are only forms recipient of life, nos. 2021, 3001, 3318, 3344, 3484, 3742, 4151, 5114, 5986. They are such forms as is their quality of reception, nos. 2888, 3001, 3484, 5847, 5986, 6467, 6472. Wherefore men, spirits, and angels are of such a character, as they are forms recipient of life from the Lord, nos. 2888, 5847, 5986, 6467, 6472. Man has been so created that in his inmost parts, and from thence in those which follow in order, he is able to receive the Divine and to be raised to the Divine, and to be conjoined with the Divine through the good of love and the truths of faith; on which account, differently from animals, he lives to eternity, no. 5114 Life from the Lord flows in likewise with the wicked, and hence also with those who are in hell, nos. 2706, 3743, 4417, 10196. But the latter turn good into evil, and truth into falsity, and thus life into spiritual death; for such as the man is, such is his reception of life, nos. 4319, 4320, 4417. Goods and truths from the Lord also flow in constantly with them; but they either reject, suffocate, or pervert them, no. 3743. Those who are in evils and the falsities thence, have no real life; the quality of their life, nos. 726, 4623, 10284, 10286.