224. EVERY EVIL, ALSO EVERY ACCIDENT, COMES FROM HELL From what has just been said it is evident that all evils, also accidents, burst forth from infernal genii, although they know nothing about them. For the inmost heaven and the more interior heaven as means or mediations, dispose and administer the things foreseen and provided by God Messiah; they dispose and administer the things thus foreseen and provided because they are salutary to the human race. These things, with men who trust in themselves and indulge the loves of self and the world, are immediately turned into evils, also into accidents: thus there is not even the least evil that happens to man, which does not burst forth from hell. I have sometimes spoken with the genii of the interior heaven concerning this, and at times they said they could not have done it, because they were ignorant of it; at other times they did it so openly that they could not deny, but frankly admitted it. 1747, Oct. 27, o.s.