2760. About the inner nature of humanity, that it is beginning more and more to become even worse

By actual experience I have been enabled to learn that in the realm of inner character, there are thousands of those who are evil, that is, who are evil inwardly, in the inward aspects of their nature. So the inner thoughts of humanity today are more depraved than formerly. In the inner realm are intentions, or motives, ending up in the world and in self. These earthly intentions and motives exist more today, and occupy people more than anyone could believe.

But it is not easy for a person to tell the difference between the inward aspects of character and the outward ones, as I have learned from actual experience of quite long duration, such as cases of someone who in the world had lived in a way that almost no one knew to be other than honorable, and thus good. Nevertheless, such people in the other life, when their intentions exposed themselves that lie in the realm of inward character, had been among the wicked and the worst, thinking entirely differently than they acted, and for no other