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 the Lord has been pleased to make for the establishment and upbuilding of a New Christian Church;—a revelation wherein are disclosed many things concerning the life after death, which the First Christian Church was not able to bear. Upon no one subject, perhaps, has the Lord's servant been more explicit, than upon the duration of the hells. The following are some of his clear and emphatic statements:

"Every man's ruling affection or love remains with him after death, nor is it extirpated to eternity; since the spirit of man is altogether such as his love is; and (what is an arcanum) the body of every spirit and angel is the external form of his love, perfectly corresponding to the internal form [i. e. to the quality of his love]. It is therefore manifest that man remains to eternity of the same character as his ruling affection or love is. It has been granted me to converse with some who lived seventeen hundred years ago, and whose lives are well known from the writings of that period; and it was found that every one was still influenced by the love which ruled him when he lived in the world." (Heaven and Hell, n. 363.)

"Man, as to his entire life [or character], remains for ever such as he is at the time of his death." (Ap. Ex., n. 174.) "As man is when he dies, such he remains to eternity." (Ibid. 125.)

"It is man's will-faculty that lives after death, and not his thinking-faculty except so far as this has been in