There are heat and
light in it from its sun, which is the Lord, and they flow from the sun
into their subjects and objects. Now the subjects and objects are angels
and spirits, in particular their volitional and mental life, and the heat
is divine love going forth, and the light is divine wisdom going forth.
The light and heat are not the cause of the different reception of them
by one and another. For the Lord says,

He makes the sun to rise on the evil and the good, and sends rain on the
just and the unjust (Mt 5:45).

In the highest spiritual sense by the "sun" the divine love is meant, and
by the "rain" the divine wisdom.

293. Let me add to this the view of the angels on will and understanding
in man. This is that there cannot be a grain of will or of prudence in
man that is his own. They say that if there were, neither heaven nor hell
would continue in existence, and all mankind would perish. The reason
they give is that myriads of human beings, as many as have been born
since the creation of the world, constitute heaven and hell, of which the
one is under the other in such an order that each is a unit, heaven one
comely humanity, and hell one monstrous humanity. If the individual had a
grain of will and intelligence of his very own, that unity could not
exist, but would be torn apart. Upon this that divine form would perish,
which can arise and remain only as the Lord is all in all and men are
nothing besides. A further reason, they say, is that to think and will
actually from one's own being is the divine itself, and to think and will
from God, is the truly human. The very divine cannot be appropriated to
anyone, for then man would be God. Bear the above in mind, and if you
wish you will have confirmation of it by angels when on death you come
into the spiritual world.

294. It was stated above (n. 289) that when some were convinced that no
one thinks from himself but from others, nor the others from themselves,
but all by influx through heaven from the Lord, they remarked in their
astonishment that then they are not in fault when they do evil, also that
then it seems evil comes from the Lord, nor do they comprehend how the
Lord can cause them all to think so differently. Since these three
notions cannot but flow into the thoughts of those who regard effects
only from effects and not from causes, they need to be taken up and
explained by what causes them.

[2] First: _They are not in fault then in doing ev