Heaven and Hell: The Portable New Century Edition

246 HEAVEN and HELL §423 with other people. So it is something we can talk and argue about and even something we can imitate wit ...

§428 the world of spirits 247 understands what is false. So for good people, the false elements are taken away and they are give ...

248 HEAVEN and HELL §428 All the hells are closed on the side that faces that world, accessible only through holes and crevices ...

§432 inwardly we are spirits 249 I have mentioned these things so that our correspondence with heaven and with hell may be known ...

250 HEAVEN and HELL §433 433 Since everything that is alive in the body—everything that acts and feels because of life—belongs t ...

§436 inwardly we are spirits 251 People who have convinced themselves of an opposite opinion tend to think that animals live and ...

252 HEAVEN and HELL §436 it all. I have talked with spirits as a spirit and I have talked with them as a person in a body. When ...

§444 inwardly we are spirits 253 I have been admitted to this state three or four times, simply to let me know what it was like, ...

254 HEAVEN and HELL §445 a. Death in the Word means resurrection because when we die, our life still goes on: 3498 , 3505 , 4618 ...

§449 our revival from death 255 d. Love is the very being of human life: 5002. Love is spiritual warmth and is therefore our own ...

256 HEAVEN and HELL §449 The angels who were sitting beside my head were silent, simply shar- ing their thoughts with mine (when ...

§452 our revival from death 257 They tell us—at least to the extent that we can grasp it—about the realities of the other life. ...

258 HEAVEN and HELL §453 a. In us all the elements of the divine design are gathered together, and by virtue of creation we are ...

§455 after death we are human 259 This is the source of our ability to accept intelligence and wisdom. It makes no difference wh ...

260 HEAVEN and HELL §455 b. A starting point should be derived from the truths of church doctrine drawn from the Word, and these ...

§456 after death we are human 261 c. Desecration is the mingling of the good and the evil and of the true and the false within u ...

262 HEAVEN and HELL §457 d. Our faces are formed to be responsive to our inner natures: 4791 – 4805 , 5695. On the corre- sponde ...

§460 after death we are human 263 stripped off and the deeper elements of their minds are arranged in the form of their affectio ...

264 HEAVEN and HELL §461 After Death, We Enjoy Every Sense, Memory, Thought, and Affection We Had in the World: We Leave Nothing ...

§462a we leave only the body behind 265 means that anything they do not sense—that is, see with their physical eyes and touch wi ...