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 can be changed after death, because it is organized according to his love and faith, and hence according to his works; and that if the life were changed, the organization would be destroyed, which can never be done. They further added, that a change of organization can only take place in the material body, and by no means in the spiritual body after the former has been rejected." (Brief Exposition n. 110; Conjugial Love 524.)

"I have been told by the angels that [after death] the life of the ruling love is never changed with any one, 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. They also stated the reason, which is, that man after death is no longer capable of being reformed by instruction as in the world, because the ultimate plane which consists of natural knowledges and affections, is then quiescent, and cannot be opened because it is not spiritual; that the interiors which belong to the rational and natural mind, rest upon that plane like a house on its foundation; and that it is for this reason that a man remains for ever such as the life of his love had been in the world." (Heaven and Hell n. 480.)

"By washing the feet is meant to purify the natural principle of man; for unless this principle in man be purified and cleansed when he lives in the world, it cannot afterward be purified to eternity; for such as his natural principle is when he dies, such it remains; nor