1712. Whatever flows in from the Lord flows into the whole greatest human, in different ways according to the various functions. So no spirit, or angel, is left unaffected by it, just as in the human body, there is no working of the soul that does not flow into its whole body. But the flow is not such that it goes from people on earth, who are relatively on the outside, to spirits and angels. For all inflow from without stops within set limits, and does not pervade to inward regions, inward qualities are as if outside and do not pervade to very inward regions, and so on. It is different with what is from the Lord, for this comes through the innermost and very inward regions. 1748, 26 March.