2326. That still, the Lord is not even in the least respect the cause of evil, follows from the fact that when the Life of the Lord streams into the heavens, and into the world of spirits, then organic forms or substances receive the life, each according to its own form, some in this way, and some in that, thus with unlimited variety. The Life streaming in they imagine to be their own, and due to this, perversities arise. 1748, 15 June.