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 All in the spiritual world, therefore, whoever they may be, are brought into such a state as to speak as they think, and to express by their faces and gestures the inclinations of their will. Hence the faces of all spirits are the forms and images of their affections. And hence it is that all who have known each other in the world, know each other also in the world of spirits, but not in heaven nor in hell.

The faces of hypocrites are changed more slowly than those of others, because from practice they have formed the habit of disposing their interiors so as to imitate good affections. Therefore they appear for a long time not uubeautiful. But because their assumed appearance is successively put off, and the interiors which belong to their minds are disposed according to the form of their affections, they afterwards become more deformed than others.

Hypocrites are those who have talked like angels, but who interiorly have acknowledged nothing but nature, and thus have denied the Divine, and consequently the truths which belong to heaven and the church.

It is worthy of remark, that the human form of every man after death is the more beautiful, the more interiorly he had loved divine truths and had lived according to them; for the interiors of every one are opened and formed according to his love and life. Therefore the more interior is the