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 diabolical and infernal love; the heavens and the hells, He conjoins by oppositions.

On account of this arrangement, every man after death goes into the society of his own love; and he cannot go into any other, for his love opposes it. Hence it is that they who are in spiritual love are in heaven, but they who are in mere natural love are in hell. Spiritual love is only implanted by a life of charity, and natural love remains natural if a life of charity is omitted; and natural love if it is not subjected to spiritual love, is opposed to it.

From these particulars it maybe seen upon whom of the Reformed the last judgment was executed;—not upon those who were in the centre, but upon those who were around it: whose external morality, as said above, gave them the outward appearance of Christians, while inwardly they were not Christians, because they were destitute of spiritual life.

II. There was seen, as it were, a stormy cloud upon those who had formed to themselves seeming heavens; which appearance resulted from the presence of the Lord in the angelic heavens above them, especially from his presence in the lowest heaven, lest any of the angels of that heaven, in consequence of conjunction with these spirits, should be carried away and perish with them. The superior heavens