4206. Evil punishes itself; and about permissions
It is evident from the order in which all thing are in heaven and in hell, spoken of elsewhere [2438-9, 2776], it is so established that every evil punishes itself, and thus that evil itself ought to erase itself. Such is the order, and this is called permission, which is nevertheless a universal law - just as it is also that mutual love rewards itself, and that it shall be done to us as we would do to another. 1749, 13 April.
