A spiritual mental image enabled me to see that there is such an equilibrium of all and the very least things, both heavenly, spiritual, and earthly in the heavens, that no one can think, feel, or act except from many, and the individuals of the many again from many, and so on. Nothing ever exists without some element responding from its opposite, and the opposites [responding] to the intermediates, likewise from many, and many groups of many. So no one can think, will, feel, act, except in a state of balance, for which reason, while I was engrossed in this spiritual mental image, spirits said that by this reasoning they are also nothing, nor can any evil happen to anyone without its being balanced at once by the Lord, thus by the good. And whenever there is a preponderance of evil, then the evil is punished, but never except for a good purpose.