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 nicated endeavor takes the form of the evil and the falsity in the natural mind, and what is evil and false results. But if the ultimates agree with the prior things, then the Lord and prior things are together in the natural or ultimate, and act as one with man.

The church has rightly believed in an existence between heaven and hell. described in the Word as the place where judgment occurs. It has been called hades or purgatory, but with many wrong ideas concerning its nature. It is rightly described as the Intermediate World of Spirits, for those in it have not yet taken their places as angels in heaven or as devils in hell. It is not, it may be said, another or novel world. As the heavens parallel the Spiritual Mind fully opened, and the hells parallel the Natural Mind infilled with evils and falsities when closed to the Spiritual Mind, so the Intermediate World parallels the Natural Mind partly open to the Internal Mind; due to there yet being in the Natural Mind a mixture of what is from heaven and what is from hell, or of " wheat and tares." Upon entering the spiritual world, with the majority of those who have made heaven possible to them, there is still some evil or falsity to be removed, for "anything