Selection from Arcana Coelestia ~ Emanuel Swedenborg
The Lord is indeed present with everyone — for life is from no other source, and He governs the most minute things of it, even with the worst of men, and in hell itself — but in various ways according to the reception of life.With those who receive the life of the love of His good and truth in a wrong manner, and pervert it into loves of evil and falsity, the Lord is present, and overrules their ends as far as possible for good, but His presence with them is called absence, and indeed in the same degree in which evil is distant from good, and falsity from truth.
But with those who receive the life of the love of the Lord's good and truth, He is said to be present, and indeed according to the degree of reception. It is with the Lord's presence as with that of the sun, which is present with its heat and light in the vegetation of the world also according to the reception.
(from Arcana Coelestia 2706)