Heaven and Hell: The Portable New Century Edition

286 HEAVEN and HELL §484 f. Our own nature is to love ourselves more than God and the world more than heaven, and to regard our ...

§487 how our pleasures change 287 into spiritual things from the fact that as long as we are in our earthly bodies we are in the ...

288 HEAVEN and HELL §487 a. By reason of correspondence, darkness in the Word means falsities, and dense darkness or gloom means ...

§488 how our pleasures change 289 b. In the Word, rocky crevices and fi ssures mean what is dim and false in faith: 10582 ; beca ...

290 HEAVEN and HELL §488 [ 5 ] If people have devoted their lives wholly to pleasure, living ele- gantly, pandering to the gulle ...

§489 how our pleasures change 291 e. A harvest in the Word means a state of acceptance and growth of what is true because of the ...

292 HEAVEN and HELL §489 light that their inner sight seems to drink directly in. This is how they perceive deeper pleasures. Th ...

§492 our first state 293 especially marriage love, the love of what is fair, honest, good, and true, the love of information and ...

294 HEAVEN and HELL §492 inward aspects of the spirit. We use the outer aspects of our spirit to adapt our bodies in the world—e ...

§496 our first state 295 Since the life of newly arrived spirits is not unlike their life in the 495 world, and since they do no ...

296 HEAVEN and HELL §496 attention when it is about more inward matters, about the true and good principles of the church and he ...

§499 our second state 297 from the fact that if we are involved in civic life, we think about other peo- ple in terms of their r ...

298 HEAVEN and HELL §499 We can see from this what our states of outer concerns and of inner concerns are. 500 When I speak of v ...

§505 our second state 299 their intention, such a unity that they scarcely seem to be thinking, only intending. It is almost the ...

300 HEAVEN and HELL §505 As long as they were living in the world, they were outwardly sensible, because this was how they imita ...

§508 our second state 301 they are separated from the more outward factors that constrained them in the world. In short, they lo ...

302 HEAVEN and HELL §508 eminence. When they arrive in the second state, they are supremely stu- pid because the more they love ...

§509 our second state 303 [ 6 ] However, the Lord controls their madness so that it does not transgress the bounds of usefulness ...

304 HEAVEN and HELL §509 anymore, or teaching or fear of the law or fear for their reputation, because they are acting from thei ...

§512 our third state 305 by outward appearance into believing that they were not evil. Often they are led around in a large circ ...