223. EACH AND ALL THINGS IN THE INMOST AND THE MORE INTERIOR HEAVEN THAT COME TO THE INTERIOR AND EXTERIOR, WHERE ARE THE INFERNAL GENII, ARE THERE TURNED INTO EVIL For a considerable time, for a year and more now, I have very frequently, and indeed daily, found that almost all things that came from the more interior heaven - which by the mercy of God Messiah was also given me to perceive - were turned into the opposite and thus into evil, at which I have long wondered; also how those opposite and contrary things could come so suddenly. But at length it was given me to understand that those genii who at this day still inhabit the ultimate heaven, or flit about there, especially those who dwell in hell, change them into what is contrary, thus that which is good into the correspondent evil; as also, that which is true into the falsity characteristic of the ultimate heaven. Indeed they do this so suddenly and skillfully that I could not but marvel. Yea, it was also given me to perceive that they did not even know what was being done in the more interior heaven, but still it was perverted into the contrary; so that there was there a conversion, as it were, of all goods into evil, as in the interior heaven there is a conversion of truths into falsity; as happened today, when I read the Chaldeans",* they suddenly turned this into "the Jews", which was the contrary. 1747, Oct. 27, o.s. * Probably Jeremiah xxxii or xxxiii (v. Index Biblicus).