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 heart which is utterly alienated from God and for ever divorced from heaven.

This fearful portion of the spiritual world must have been photographed upon the mind of the great poet when he conceived the following lines of the Paradise Lost:

The poet imagines this hell; Swedenborg explains it. The devils have rejected that divine love and wisdom which create through angelic souls the lovely and beautiful things in heaven; therefore they see no cheering and golden sun which represents the Lord, no blue ethereal dome, no rosy clouds, no rainbows in the air, no flowers upon the earth, no verdure in the fields,