Heaven and Hell: The Portable New Century Edition

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The Lord Governs the Hells 536 I N the earlier discussion of heaven, it was made clear throughout (partic- ularly in §§ 2 – 6 ) ...

328 HEAVEN and HELL §538 538 I have sometimes been allowed to sense the aura of malevolent falsity flowing out of hell. It was l ...

§543 the lord governs the hells 329 Like heaven, hell is differentiated into communities. In fact, there 541 are just as many co ...

330 HEAVEN and HELL §543 gained control by their experience and skill; and they are able to keep the rest in servile obedience b ...

§546 evil spirits choose hell 331 a. Blazing wrath is attributed to God in the Word, but it is the wrath in us; and the Word say ...

332 HEAVEN and HELL §546 We can see from this that the Lord is constantly fl owing into every individual with good, just as much ...

§550 evil spirits choose hell 333 This is hard to believe in the world because of people’s notions about hell. In fact, it does ...

334 HEAVEN and HELL §550 We can therefore conclude that the Lord does not do harm to any- one. It is like this in the world as w ...

§552 evil & falsity 335 a. Before evil people are thrown down into hell they are stripped of what is true and good, and once ...

336 HEAVEN and HELL §552 moon, while heaven’s angels all turn toward the Lord as the sun and the moon of heaven (see above, §§ 1 ...

§555 evil & falsity 337 a gift of the Lord’s mercy, so that they do not look as repulsive to each other as they do to angels ...

338 HEAVEN and HELL §555 Since this is in fact the case, I should like fi rst to describe what love for oneself is, and then exp ...

§558b evil & falsity 339 b. The self-image that we get from our parents by heredity is nothing but condensed evil: 210 , 215 ...

340 HEAVEN and HELL §558b c. People who do not know what loving their neighbor is think that everyone is their neighbor and that ...

§561 evil & falsity 341 d. Our world’s sun means love for oneself: 2441. How “worshiping the sun” [Deuteronomy 4 : 19 , 17 : ...

342 HEAVEN and HELL §562 562 In broad terms, the evils characteristic of people focused on love for themselves are contempt for ...

§565 evil & falsity 343 Once more I could see from this that no matter how wisely people may seem to talk in the world from ...

344 HEAVEN and HELL §565 This love takes many forms, though. We may love wealth in order to be raised to exalted rank simply bec ...

§569 hellfire & gnashing 345 a. There is an infl ow of the spiritual world into the natural world: 6053 – 6058 , 6189 – 6215 ...