It is known that purpose is the all in all things of human thoughts. All things that one thinks are indirect purposes in a varying sequence looking to a prevailing purpose or one's love, hence one's whole character. I spoke of these matters with spirits, and in order to show them I was given to say that if someone should convert the whole globe to Christianity, with the motive of self-glory, self-love and the like, then such a one would be allotted no reward for it in the other life, because the motive was not love of the Lord or the salvation of the human race; and on the other hand, that if someone should persecute Christianity and overthrow it, yet doing so from an innocent motive, thinking this was good, then such a one would be rewarded. The souls and spirits were unwilling to admit this, because it is common with them if someone has accomplished something on behalf of the doctrine of faith in their bodily life,