339. (ii) All things that are evil uses are in hell, and all things that are good uses are in heaven. Before it can be seen that all evil uses which have existence on earth are not from the Lord but from hell, something must first be premised concerning heaven and hell, without a knowledge of which evil as well as good uses may be attributed to the Lord, and considered to be at the same time from creation; or they may be attributed to nature, and their origin to the natural sun. From these two errors man cannot be led away unless he knows that nothing whatever has existence in the natural world which does not derive its cause and therefore its origin from the spiritual world, and that good is from the Lord, and evil from the devil, that is, from hell. By the spiritual world is meant both heaven and hell. In heaven are to be seen all these things which are good uses, concerning which see a preceding section (n. 336). While in hell are to be seen all these things which are evil uses, concerning which see just above (n. 338) where they are enumerated. These are wild creatures of every kind, as serpents, scorpions, dragons, crocodiles, tigers, wolves, foxes, swine, owls of different kinds, bats, rats, mice, frogs, locusts, spiders and noxious insects of many kinds. There also appear poisonous things, also hemlocks of all kinds and aconites, both of herbs and of earths, in a word, everything harmful and deadly to man. Such things appear in the hells so to the life as to resemble exactly those upon and in the earth. It is said they appear there, but yet they are not there as on earth, for they are mere correspondences of the cupidities that swarm out of their evil loves, presenting themselves in such forms before others. Because there are such things in the hells, therefore they also abound in foul smells, cadaverous, stercoraceous, urinous, putrid, with which the diabolical spirits there are delighted, as animals in rank stenches. From these things it can be established that similar things in the natural world did not derive their origin from the Lord and were not created from the beginning, neither did they spring from nature through her sun, but they are from hell. That they are not from nature through her sun is clearly manifest from the fact that the spiritual inflows into the natural and not the reverse. And that they are not from the Lord is plain because hell is not from Him, therefore nothing in hell, corresponding to the evils of those there, is from Him.