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 Rh and speaks. He acquires for himself this sphere—which is the sphere of his affections and their thoughts—whilst he is in the world; if he is evil, in hell; but if he is good, in heaven. He is not aware that such is the case, because he is not aware that such things exist. Through these societies the man, that is, his mind, walks free, although bound, led by the Lord, nor does he take a step into which and from which he is not so led. It is moreover, continually provided that he should have no other knowledge than that he proceeds of himself in perfect liberty."—Ath. Cr., 68.

27 (p. 64).—"The life which is from the Lord is attractive, because it is from love: for all love possesses in itself a force of attraction, because it wills to be conjoined even unto one." —Arcana Cælestia, 8604.

28 (p. 65).—"When the first state after death is passed through, which is the slate of the exteriors, the man-spirit is let into the state of his interiors, or into the state of his interior will and its thought, in which ho had been in the world when left to himself to think freely and without restraint. Into this state he glides without being aware of it, in like manner as in the world, when he withdraws the thought which is nearest to the speech, or from which the speech is, towards his interior thought, and abides in that. When, therefore, the man-spirit is in this state, he is in himself and in his own very life; for to think freely from his own affection is the very life of man, and is himself.

"The spirit in this state thinks from his own very will, thus from his own very affection, or from his own very love; and in this case the thought makes one with the will, and one in such a manner that it scarcely appears that the spirit thinks, but that he wills. The case is nearly similar when he speaks yet with this difference, that he speaks with some degree of fear lest the thoughts of the will should go forth naked, since by civil life in the world this habit also had become of his will."—H. H., 502, 503.

29 (p. 66).—"All man's will and love remains with him after death (n. 470–484). He who wills and loves evil in the world, wills and loves evil in the other life, and then he no longer suffers himself to be withdrawn from it. Hence it is that the man who is in evil is tied to hell, and likewise is actually there as lo his spirit, and after death desires nothing more than to be where his own evil is; consequently it is man after death who casts himself into hell, and not the