As to what relates to the last judgment, spoken of above at n. 226, see the small Treatise CONCERNING THE LAST JUDGMENT, AND THE DESTRUCTION OF BABYLON, from the beginning to the end; wherein it is shewn that it will not be attended with the destruction of the world.

of HEAVEN and HELL.

230. THERE are two things which constitute the life of man's spirit, love and faith; love constituting the life of his will, and faith the life of his understanding. The love of good and the faiths of truth thence derived, constitute the life of heaven; and the love of evil, and the faith of what is false thence derived, constitute the life of hell.

231. Love to the Lord and love towards our neighbour, constitute heaven; and so does faith so far as it has life from those loves; and forasmuch as each of those loves and the faith thence derived are from the Lord, it is evident from hence that the Lord constitutes heaven.

232. Heaven is with every one according to his reception of love and faith from the Lord; and they who receive heaven from the Lord, whilst they live in the world, come into heaven after death.

233. They who receive heaven from the Lord are they who have heaven in themselves; for heaven is in man; as the Lord also teaches;

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They shall not say, the kingdom of God, lo it

is here! or lo there! for behold the kingdom "of God is in you,” Luke xvii. 21.

234. Heaven with man resides in his internal, thus in willing and thinking from love and faith, and thence in his external, which consists in acting and speaking from love and faith; but it does not reside in the external without being in the internal; for all hypocrites are capable of acting and speaking well, but not of willing well and thinking well.

235. When man comes into the other life; which takes place immediately after death, it is then manifest whether heaven is in him, but not whilst he lives in the world; for in the world the external appears and not the interual, but in the other life the internal is made manifest, because man then lives as to his spirit.

236. Eternal happiness, which is also called heavenly joy, is imparted to those who are in love and faith to the Lord from the Lord; that love and that faith have in them that joy; into which the man who has heaven in himself comes after death; in the mean time it lies stored up in his internal. In the heavens there is a communion of goods; the peace, the intelligence, the wisdom, and the happiness of all are communicated to every one therein: hence it appears how great peace, intelligence, wisdom, and happiness, are in

heaven.

237. As love to the Lord, and love towards our neighbour, constitute the life of heaven with man, so the love of self and the love of the world, when they reign, constitute the life of hell with him, for these latter loves are opposite to the former; therefore they with whom the loves of self and of the world reign, are incapable of receiving

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any thing from heaven; but the things which they receive are from hell: for whatever a man loves and whatever he believes, is either from heaven or from hell.

338. They with whom the loves of self and of the world reign, do not know what heaven and the happiness of heaven are; and it appears incredible to them that happiness is given in any other loves than in those: when yet the happiness of heaven only enters, so far as those loves, as ends, are removed; the happiness which succeeds on their removal, is so great, that it exceeds all human comprehension.

239. The life of man cannot be changed after death, but remains then such as it had been [in the world]: for the whole spirit of man is such as his love is, and infernal love cannot be transcribed into heavenly love, because they are opposite; this is understood by the words of Abraham to the rich man in hell, "There is a great gulph between us

and you, so that they who would pass to you ic cannot, neither can they pass from thence to

us." Luke xvi. 26 Hence it is plain, that they who come into hell remain there to eternity, and that hey who come into heaven remain there to eternity.

240. INASMUCH as the subject concerning heaven

and hell has been treated of in a work by itself, and therein are also adduced what are contained in the ARCANA CELESTIA concerning them, it is therefore unnecessary here to add any thing further on the subject.

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Of the CHURCH.

241. THAT which constitutes heaven with mau, also constitutes the church; for as love and faith constitute heaven, so also love and faith constitute the church; hence from what has been said before concerning heaven, it is evident what the church is.

242. Where the Lord is acknowledged, and where the Word is, is called the church: for the essentials of the church are love and faith to the Lord from the Lord; and the Word teaches how man is to live, in order that he may receive love and faith from the Lord.

243. In order that there may be a church, there must be doctrine from the Word, since without doctrine the Word is not understood: but doctrine alone does not constitute the church with man, but a life according to it: whence it follows that faith alone does not constitute the church, but the life of faith, which is charity. Genuine doctrine is the doctrine of charity and of faith together, and not the doctrine of faith without that of charity; for the doctrine of charity and of faith together, is the doctrine of life, but not the doctrine of faith without the doctrine of charity.

244. They who are without the church, and still acknowlege one God, and live according to their religious [principle] in a certain charity towards their neighbour, are in communion with those who are of the church, for no one, who believes in God and lives well, is damned: hence it is evident that the church of the Lord is every where in the universal globe, although it is speci-

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fically where the Lord is acknowleged, and where the Word is.

245. Every one with whom the church is, is saved, but every one with whom the church is not, is condemned.

EXTRACTS from the ARCANA COELESTIA.

246. THAT the church is specifically where the Word is, and where the Lord is thereby known, and thus where Divine Truths are revealed, n. 3857, 10761. But still that they are not of the church who are born where the Word is, and where the Lord is thereby known, but they who are regenerated by the Lord by means of truths from the Word, and these are they who live a life of charity, n. 6637, 10143, 10153, 10578, 10645, 10829. That they who are of the church,or in whom the church is, are in the affection of truth for the sake of truth, that is, they love truth because it is truth; they also explore from the Word whether the doctrinals of the church in which they were born are true, n. 5432, 6047.. Otherwise the truth possessed by every one would be derived from another, and from his native soil, n. 6047.

That the church of the Lord is with all in the universal world who live in good according to their religious [principle] n. 3263, 6637, 10765. That all wherever they may be who live in good, and acknowlege one God, are accepted by the Lord and come into heaven; since all who are in good acknowlege the Lord, by reason that good is from the Lord, and the Lord is in good, n. 2589 to 2604, 2861, 2863, 3263, 4190, 4197, 6700, 9256. That the universal church in the earths is before the Lord as one man,

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