35. Man has two inherent powers of will and understanding. When the understanding is governed by the will they then constitute one mind and so one life; for what a person in that case wills and does he also thinks and intends. But when the understanding is at variance with the will, as it is with people who claim to have faith and yet live otherwise, then a mind previously one is split in two. One half seeks to transport itself into heaven, while the other inclines towards hell. And because the will is what accomplishes everything, the whole man would rush straight into hell unless the Lord took pity on him.

713. Contrariwise there are three opposites to these universals: the devil, evil and falsity. The devil (by which we mean hell) is in opposition to the Lord, evil is in opposition to good and falsity to truth. These three make one, for where the devil is, there are evil too and the falsity which comes from it. These three also contain at the universal and the particular level everything to do with hell and also the world, which are in opposition to heaven and the church. But being opposites they are therefore totally separate, yet still held in a relationship by the amazing way in which the whole of hell is subject to heaven, evil is subject to good and falsity to truth; this subjection has been described in my book called HEAVEN AND HELL 536-544.