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 because the interiors are of the spirit, and the life of man is the life of his spirit, for the body lives from the spirit. Hence, therefore, the character of a man, as determined by his interiors, remains to eternity the same." (H. H. 502.)

"There are some whom I knew while they lived in the body, and who then appeared as if in zeal for the Lord, the church, their country and the common good, and for what is just and equitable; and yet the same in another life are among the infernals, and (what I wondered at) among the worst of them. The reason was, that their interiors had been filthy and profane, and they had feigned that zeal with a view to reputation, in order to acquire honors and wealth, thus with a view to themselves, but not with a view to what they professed with their mouths. Wherefore, when those externals are put off, as is the case at death, the internals are manifested, and appear as they were within, which, during the life in the body had been coneealed from the world." (A. C. 4314.)

"The Lord alone sees the state of every one from inmost to outermost, as also what a man has been from infancy to old age, and what he will be to eternity, and likewise what place he will have either in heaven or in hell; and this the Lord sees in an instant, and from Himself, because He is the divine Truth itself or the Word; but angels and men do not see this in the least, because they are finite; and the finite see only a few things, and these only external." (See the whole no. A. R. 262.) "A church is not possible with those who are in externals without an internal