6470. The truth that all life comes from the Lord I have also been allowed to know from the consideration that no spirit's thought or speech originates in himself but comes from others, and that these others derive theirs from others again, and so on. This truth has often been demonstrated to those who believed that life was intrinsic, not something which flowed in. From this demonstration of it they were led to conclude that since nobody's thought or speech begins in himself but comes from others, everyone's comes ultimately from a single source, thus from the Lord. And unless everyone's had come from a single source it would have been quite impossible to introduce order into the lives of those in heaven. Such order does however exist there, involving clear-cut divisions into communities on the basis of their good. The situation would be altogether different if everyone's actions sprang from life that was his own.