om which they have eternal life; but
it is otherwise with beasts (n. 4525, 6323, 9231). Beasts are
in the order of their life, and are therefore born into things
suitable to their nature, but man is not, and he must therefore
be led into the order of his life by intellectual means (n.
637, 5850, 6323). According to general influx thought with man
falls into speech and will into movements (n. 5862, 5990, 6192,
6211). The general influx of the spiritual world into the lives
of beasts (n. 1633, 3646).

297. As to what further concerns the conjunction of heaven with the
human race, let it be noted that the Lord Himself flows into each
man, in accord with the order of heaven, both into his inmosts and
into his outmosts, and arranges him for receiving heaven, and governs
his outmosts from his inmosts, and at the same time his inmosts from
his outmosts, thus holding in connection each thing and all things in
man. This influx of the Lord is called direct influx; while the other
influx that is effected through spirits is called mediate influx. The
latter is maintained by means of the former. Direct influx, which is
that of the Lord Himself, is from His Divine Human, and is into man's
will and through his will into his understanding, and thus into his
good and through his good into his truth, or what is the same thing,
into his love and through his love into his faith; and not the
reverse, still less is it into faith apart from love or into truth
apart from good or into understanding that is not from will. This
Divine influx is unceasing, and in the good is received in good, but
not in the evil; for in them it is either rejected or suffocated or
perverted; and in consequence they have an evil life which in a
spiritual sense is death.{1}

{Footnote 1} There is direct influx from the Lord, and also
mediate influx through the spiritual world (n. 6063, 6307,
6472, 9682, 9683). The Lord's direct influx is into the least
particulars of all things (n. 6058, 6474-6478, 8717, 8728). The
Lord flows in into firsts and at the same time into lasts-in
what manner (n. 5147, 5150, 6473, 7004, 7007, 7270). The Lord's
influx is into the good in man, and through the good into truth
and not the reverse (n. 5482, 5649, 6027, 8685, 8701, 10153).
The life that flows in from the Lord varies in accordance with
the state of man and in accordance with reception (n. 2069,
5986, 6472, 7343). With the evil the good t