... It is to be observed that the world of spirits is one thing,
and the spiritual world another. The spiritual world embraces the
world of spirits and heaven and hell.
--_Divine Love and Wisdom, n._ 140
THE WAY OF ONE'S OWN LOVE
After death every one goes the way of his love--he who is in a good
love, to heaven, and he who is in a wicked love, to hell. Nor does he
rest until he is in that society where his ruling love is. What is
wonderful, every one knows the way.
Every one's state after death is spiritual, which is such that he
cannot be anywhere but in the delight of his own love, which he has
acquired for himself by his life in the natural world. From this it
appears plainly that no one can be let into the delight of heaven who
is in the delight of hell.... This may be still more certainly
concluded from the fact that no one is forbidden after death to ascend
to heaven. The way is shown him, opportunity is given him, and he is
let in. But when one who is in the delight of evil comes into heaven,
and breathes in its delight, he begins to be oppressed, and racked at
heart, and to feel in a swoon, in which he writhes like a snake put
near a fire; and with his face turned away from heaven and toward
hell, he flees headlong, nor does he rest until he is in the society
of his own love.
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