As freedom belongs to man's love, so it
belongs to man's life (n. 2873). Nothing appears as man's own
except what is from freedom (n. 2880). Man must have freedom
that he may be reformed (n. 1937, 1947, 2876, 2881, 3145, 3146,
3158, 4031, 8700). Otherwise no love of good and truth can be
implanted in man and be appropriated seemingly as his own (n.
2877, 2879, 2880, 2883, 8700). Nothing that comes from
compulsion is conjoined to man (n. 2875, 8700). If man could be
reformed by compulsion everyone would be reformed (n. 2881).
Compulsion in reformation is harmful (n. 4031). What states of
compulsion are (n. 8392).
294. What the communication of heaven is with good spirits, and what
the communication of hell is with evil spirits, and the consequent
conjunction of heaven and hell with man, shall also be told. All
spirits who are in the world of spirits have communication with
heaven or with hell, evil spirits with hell, and good spirits with
heaven. Heaven is divided into societies, and hell also. Every spirit
belongs to some society, and continues to exist by influx from it,
thus acting as one with it. Consequently as man is conjoined with
spirits so is he conjoined with heaven or with hell, even with the
society there to which he is attached by his affection or his love;
for the societies of heaven are all distinguished from each other in
accordance with their affections for good and truth, and the
societies of hell in accordance with their affections for evil and
falsity.
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