4137. How it is with evils and falsities

Everything whatever that flows from the own self of angels, spirits and people on earth, is evil and false. They can never bring forth anything even the very least of goodness and truth, and as much as they are left to themselves, so much they bring forth of evil and falsity, and so much of misfortune - if it does not appear at the moment, it nevertheless does so later, little by little; as much as they have from the Lord, so much they have of goodness and truth, because the Lord is Goodness and Truth. This shows where evils and falsities come from; for no matter how hard the evil try to do good things, they cannot. This applies in general to all and the very least cases. 1749, 11 Jan. I clearly realized that it is so.