by the help of the Lord. In this and in no other way is the spiritual
mind opened, and by means of such opening the natural mind is brought back
into correspondent form.

270. (5) All evils and their falsities, both engendered and acquired,
have their seat in the natural mind. Evils and their falsities have their
seat in the natural mind, because that mind is, in form or image, a world;
while the spiritual mind in its form or image is a heaven, and in heaven
evil cannot be entertained. The spiritual mind, therefore, is not opened
from birth, but is only in the capability of being opened. Moreover, the
natural mind derives its form in part from substances of the natural
world; but the spiritual mind from substances of the spiritual world
only; and this mind is preserved in its integrity by the Lord, in order
that man may be capable of becoming a man; for man is born an animal, but
he becomes a man. The natural mind, with all its belongings, is coiled
into gyres from right to left, but the spiritual mind into gyres from left
to right; the two thus curving in directions contrary to each other - a
proof that evil has its seat in the natural mind, and that of itself it
acts against the spiritual mind. Moreover, the gyration from right to left
is turned downward, thus towards hell, but the gyration from left to right
tends upward, thus toward heaven. This was made evident to me by the fact
that an evil spirit can gyrate his body only from right to left, not from
left to right; while a good spirit can gyrate his body from right to left
only with difficulty, but with ease from left to right. Gyration follows
the flow of the interiors, which belong to the mind.

271. EVILS AND FALSITIES ARE IN COMPLETE OPPOSITION TO GOODS AND TRUTHS,
BECAUSE EVILS AND FALSITIES ARE DIABOLICAL AND INFERNAL, WHILE GOODS AND
TRUTHS ARE DIVINE AND HEAVENLY.