Arcana Coelestia (Elliott) n. 10382

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10382. Afterwards I spoke to those spirits who were keeping themselves at a distance, asking them what happens to those among them who are bad. They said that on their planet no one is allowed to be wicked; but if anyone does contemplate and do what is evil he is rebuked by a certain spirit who threatens him with death if he continues in such ways. If he does continue in them, they said, he has a fainting fit from which he dies; and in this way people on that planet are protected from the contamination of evils. A certain spirit of their kind was sent to me, who spoke to me as he would have done to them, in addition to which he caused some sort of pain in the area of my abdomen, saying that he did this kind of thing to those who contemplate and do what is evil, and threatened them with death. But this spirit was a rebuking spirit; he stood at the back of my head, and spoke to me from there with a voice which rose and fell like waves.


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