192. I have stated that if people believe on the basis of appearances that human prudence accounts for everything, the only way to convince them is with reasoning based on deeper investigation, reasoning that must be drawn from the realm of causes. So to make these points of reasoning drawn from the realm of causes clear to the discerning mind, I need to present them in their proper sequence, which will be as follows.
1. All our thoughts arise from impulses of our life's love; there are no thoughts whatever that arise from any other source.
2. Only the Lord knows the impulses of our life's love.
3. The Lord guides the impulses of our life's love by his divine providence, and with them guides the thoughts that give rise to our prudence.
4. By his divine providence the Lord gathers these impulses of the whole human race into a single form, which is a human form.
5. Heaven and hell, which come from the human race, are therefore in this kind of form.
6. People who acknowledge only the physical world and human prudence constitute hell, while people who acknowledge God and his divine providence constitute heaven.
7. None of this could happen if it did not seem to us that we think autonomously and manage our lives autonomously.
