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 not be fully received into any finite mind; but every spirit that loves these heavenly things, receives something therefrom, according to his state; and hence the foundation is laid for an immense number and variety of societies in heaven. And the same is true of those unhappy men or spirits who love those evils and falsities which result from the perversion of goodness and truth. There is no reason to suppose that any two men or spirits love precisely the same evils and falses, and hence the hells of no two are, in all respects, precisely alike.

In regard to heaven, the most general, as well as obvious division, is, into the celestial and spiritual kingdoms. The former is the heaven of those who act solely from the love of goodness. They love truth, not so much for its own sake, as from its relation to that interior goodness which forms the life of their spirits. In regard to the angels of this highest and in most heaven, our author remarks that:—

"The angels in the celestial kingdom of the Lord very much excel in wisdom and glory, the angels who are in the spiritual kingdom, because they receive the Divine of the Lord more interiorly; for they are in love to him, and thence nearer and more conjoined to Him. That those angels are such, is because they have received and do receive divine truths immediately into life, and not, as the spiritual, in previous memory and thought; wherefore they have them inscribed on their hearts, and perceive them, and as it were, see them in themselves, nor do they ever reason about them, whether it be so or not so. They are such as are described in Jeremiah: I will put my law in their mind, and write it on their heart; they shall not teach any more every one his friend and every one his brother, saying, Know ye Jehovah: they shall know me, from the least of them to the greatest of them, xxxi. 33, 34. And they are called in lsaiah, the taught of Jehovah, liv. 13. That those who are taught by Jehovah are those who are taught by the Lord, the Lord Himself teaches, in John, vi. 45, 46."—H. & H. n. 25.

The angels of the spiritual kingdom are those whose whole life and affections are filled with the love of truth. They have a clear and distinct perception of what is just, orderly and right, and all such things they love. They have also a