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 therein. In those who have attained supreme love to the Lord, all the planes of the Internal Mind have their ultimates developed and fixed in the Limbus, in which they subsist in simultaneous order. Therefore influx can pass from the Lord through all the discrete degrees or planes of the mind to their ultimates, and take on there quality from the Limbus, which is determined by the life lived while in the body. And since there is power in a higher degree because its power is in fulness in its ultimate, life in the higher degree, or heavenly life, is possible only when its ultimate is formed in the Limbus.

The Limbus of those who die in infancy, because such are in innocency and the limbus is not filled and fixed, is filled and formed after death as a basis from which they are elevated into heavenly life. For, as we have shown, degrees of height are in fulness and power in their ultimates; and since interior things of successively higher discrete degrees are simultaneously present in their ultimates, coexisting therewith and acting as one, it is evident that any plane of the mind that has not an ultimate fixed in the Limbus can have no power, and hence cannot come into human consciousness.