Arcana Coelestia (Elliott) n. 7250

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7250. Since they are like this they too, when they enter the next life, are molested very greatly by falsities and evils. The hells which appear to them surrounding their planet have no contact with the hells of the wicked belonging to our planet, because they are entirely different in nature and disposition, as a consequence of which their evils and falsities also are of an altogether different kind. But those who are such that they are able to be saved are in places where vastation takes place, and there they are driven to the depths of despair. For evils and falsities of that nature cannot be removed in any other way. While in the state of despair they cry out, saying that they are beastly animals, brutish ones, abominable creatures, filled with hatred, and so are damned. Some of them passing through this kind of state also cry out against heaven; but they are forgiven because they do this in their despair. The Lord prevents them from going beyond certain limits when they launch into vituperation. When these people's last sufferings are over, they are finally saved, because now their bodily passions are so to speak dead.


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