5848. To enable the Lord's life to flow in and be received by people in accordance with all His law, angels and spirits are present with them constantly - angels from heaven and spirits from hell. And I have been informed that there are with every person two spirits and two angels. The spirits from hell are there because alone by himself a person is constantly immersed in evil, owing to the delight engendered by his selfish and worldly love; and to the extent a person is immersed in evil or subject to that delight, angels from heaven cannot be present with him.