986. There cannot be more than one love, thus more than one life, and this comes from the Messiah Alone. The life that appears in human minds since the fall is a nature-based life. It is like the life of demons who are let into Heaven* in order to sustain and arouse life in those human minds concordant with the state of each person's life. These demon spirits, regarded in themselves, are earthly, being inwardly angels of shade, but outwardly appearing as angels of light; so they live an entirely upside down life. These words were said to me by those who are in the Heaven of the Messiah Himself. [Love; Demon; Person (Man); World; Spirit; Life] * In all the index references to this passage, the term "world of spirits" is substituted for "Heaven."