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Swedenborg, Emanuel, 1688-1772

"Heaven and its Wonders and Hell"

7122, 9330). Elevation into heaven
is impossible until such things have been removed, because they
obstruct heavenly things and are not in harmony with them (n.
6928, 7122, 7186, 7541, 7542, 9763). Those who are to be raised
up into heaven are thus prepared for it (n. 4728, 7090). It is
dangerous to come into heaven before being prepared (n. 537,
538). The state of enlightenment and the joy of those who come
out of vastation and are raised up into heaven, and their
reception there (n. 2699, 2701, 2704). The region where those
vastations are effected is called the lower earth (n. 4728,
7090). That region is under the soles of the feet surrounded by
the hells; its nature described (n. 4940-4951, 7090); from
experience (n. 699). What the hells are which more than others
infest and vastate (n. 7317, 7502, 7545). Those that have
infested and vastated the well disposed are afterwards afraid
of them, shun them, and turn away from them (n. 7768). These
infestations and vastations are effected in different ways in
accordance with the adhesion of evils and falsities, and they
continue in accordance with their quality and quantity (n.


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