3894. Since the breathing of angels and spirits is determined entirely by their states of love and of faith deriving from it, as stated above in 3892, one community does not therefore breathe in the same way as another. Nor can the evil who are governed by self-love and love of the world and as a consequence by falsity share the company of the good. When they come near the good it seems to them as though they are unable to breathe and are so to speak being suffocated. As a consequence they sink down like somebody half-dead, and so like stones, into hell where they regain their ability to breathe along with those who are already in that place. From this it may be seen that those immersed in evil and falsity cannot be in the Grand Man or heaven, for when their breathing starts to falter as they are approaching heaven all their discernment and thought too starts to falter, as well as all their effort to perform what is evil and press what is false. And with that effort their whole action and impetus perishes. Consequently they are unable to do anything else but cast themselves down headlong from that place.