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 I have also heard from the angels that no one's life can be changed after death." (Brief Exposition n. 110.)

"I have been told by the angels that the life of the ruling love [after death] is never changed with any one to eternity, since every one is his own love; wherefore to change that love in a spirit, would be to deprive him of his life, or to annihilate him." (Heaven and Hell n. 480.)

"I can testify from much experience, that it is impossible to implant the life of heaven in those who have led an opposite life in the world." Then—after relating some experiments made with persons who had imbibed the notion that they might receive the life of heaven in the other world, however they had failed to obey the laws of that life in this—the writer concludes: "From these and other experiments, the simple good were instructed that no one's life can possibly be changed after death; and that evil life can by no means be changed into good life, nor infernal life into angelic, since every spirit from head to foot is of the same quality as his love, and therefore of the same quality as his life: and that to transmute this life into the opposite, were to destroy the spirit altogether. The angels declare that it were easier to change a bat into a dove, or an owl into a bird of paradise, than an infernal spirit into an angel of heaven." (Ibid. n. 527.)

(See also Arcana Cœlestia n. 3762, 3993, 4464, 4588, 5145, 7186, 8206, 9061, 10,243, 10,284; True Chris-