599. In order that man may be in freedom, for the sake of his being reformed, he is conjoined as to his spirit both with heaven and with hell. For with every man there are spirits from hell and angels from heaven. It is by means of the spirits from hell that man is in his own evil, while it is by means of angels from heaven that man is in good from the Lord; thus is he in spiritual equilibrium, that is, in freedom. That angels from heaven and spirits from hell are joined to every man may be seen in the section on the conjunction of heaven with the human race (n. 291-302).