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 but because they fear the laws and the loss of fame, honor and gain. They who do good from no other origin, do not fear God but men, and are destitute of conscience.

In the first heaven of the Reformed there was a large proportion of spirits who believed that man is saved by faith alone, and did not live the life of faith, which is charity; and who loved much to be seen of men. In all these spirits, so long as they were associated together, their interiors were closed that they might not appear; but when the last judgment was at hand they were opened; and it was then found that inwardly they were obsessed by falsities and evils of every kind, and that they were against the Divine, and were actually in hell. For every one after death is immediately bound to his like,—the good to their like in heaven, but the evil to their like in hell; yet they do not go to them before their interiors are unveiled; in the mean time they may live together in society with those who resemble them in externals.

But it is to be observed that all who were inwardly good or spiritual, were separated from those spirits, and elevated into heaven; and that all who were outwardly as well as inwardly evil, were also separated from them, and cast into hell; and this from the time immediately succeeding the Lord's advent, down to the last time when the judgment was; and that those only were left to form societies among themselves,