Heaven and Hell (Harley) n. 204

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204. It ought, however, to be known that intelligence and wisdom vary with everyone in accordance with this communication. Those whose intelligence and wisdom are formed from genuine truths and goods have communication with societies in accordance with the form of heaven, while those whose intelligence and wisdom are not formed from genuine truths and goods, but yet from things that agree with them, have a broken and irregularly coherent communication, since it is not with societies in the series in which the form of heaven is. On the other hand, those who are not in intelligence and wisdom because they are in falsities from evil, have communication with societies in hell, their extension being according to the degree of their confirmation. It ought further to be known that this communication with societies is not such a communication as is clearly perceptible to those there, but is a communication with their quality in which they are, and which flows from them.# # Thought diffuses itself into the societies of spirits and angels round about (n. 6600-6605); but still it does not move and disturb the thoughts of those societies (n. 6601, 6603).


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