Arcana Coelestia (Elliott) n. 1878

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1878. There are also spirits who during their lifetime regarded the Word with contempt, and there are those who have misused phrases that appear in the Word to make derisive remarks. There are some who imagined that the Word was of no importance but that it might serve to keep the common people under some control. There are others who have blasphemed the Word, and there are those who have profaned it. The fate of these people in the next life is wretched, depending in each case on the nature and degree of their contempt, derision, blasphemy, or profanation. For, as has been stated, the Word is so holy in the heavens that the Word is so to speak heaven to those who are there. Consequently, since a sharing of everyone's thoughts takes place there, the types of spirits that have been mentioned can in no way remain there but are set apart from them.


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