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68 affection and thought he neither fears God nor cares for his neighbor. He may also see and judge of his exterior thought from the interior; he may see the evils of his external life and judge and combat them them from interior purpose. On the other hand he may see what is just and right from interior thought, and from exterior thought and affection incline to the opposite. He may even love what is just and right as to his interiors, and yet in his exterior thought and affection from want of instruction or from the power of habit, or failure to conquer and conform the exterior to the interior, he may do things contrary to what is just and right. All men in this life are more or less in this conflict, or non-correspondence, between the interior and exterior life. They enter the spiritual world in this mixed state of good and evil, truth and falsity. Their judgment consists in the revelation of the quality of their ruling, which is the interior, love; and in reducing exteriors into conformity with it, and in their further instruction and preparation for heaven if good, or on the contrary for their final home among the evil in hell.

All men pass first, therefore, into an