The Last JudgmentEmanuel Swedenborg
The Last Judgment
Emanuel Swedenborg
The former Heaven and the Last Judgment upon the Reformed - part
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(71) What the quality of the first heaven was,
may be concluded from the things already said of it; as also from this, that they who are
not spiritual by acknowledgment of the Divine, by a life of good, and by the affection of
truth, and still appear as spiritual by external holiness, by discoursing on Divine
things, and by sincerities for the sake of themselves and the world, rush into the
abominations which agree with their lusts, when they are left to their own internals; for
nothing withholds them, neither fear of God, nor faith, nor conscience. Hence it was, that
as soon as they who were in the first heaven were let into their interiors, they appeared
conjoined with the hells.
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