All a man's will and love remains with him after death. He who wills
and loves evil in the world, wills and loves the same evil in the
other life; and then he no longer suffers himself to be withdrawn from
it. This is the reason that a man who is in evil is bound fast to hell
and is actually there, too, in spirit, and after death he desires
nothing more than to be where his evil is. After death, therefore, a
man casts himself into hell, and not the Lord.
--_Heaven and Hell, n._ 547
EVIL AND PUNISHMENT
All evil bears its punishment with it. Evil spirits are punished
because the fear of punishment is the one means of subduing evils in
this state. Exhortation no longer avails, nor instruction, nor fear of
the law nor fear for one's reputation; for now the spirit acts from a
nature which cannot be coerced or broken except by punishment.
--_Heaven and Hell, n._ 509
It is a law in the other life that no one shall become worse than he
had been in the world.
--_Arcana Coelestia, n._ 6559
GOD WILLS THE DAMNATION OF NONE
If men could be saved by immediate mercy, all would be saved, even
those in hell; and indeed there would be no hell, because the Lord is
mercy itself and good itself.
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