9447. Those who have been regenerated are maintained constantly by the Lord in the good of faith and love and are at the same time withheld from evils and falsities. Those however who do not allow themselves to be regenerated by the Lord are also withheld from evil and maintained in good, for there is a constant inflow of goodness and truth from the Lord with everyone; but the hellish kinds of love that rule them, namely self-love and love of the world, stand in the way and turn the inflowing good into evil and the inflowing truth into falsity.