1106-1113). Some are quite willing to be vastated (n. 1107).
Some are vastated by fears (n. 4942). Some by being infested
with the evils they have done in the world, and with the
falsities they have thought in the world, from which they have
anxieties and pangs of conscience (n. 1106). Some by spiritual
captivity, which is ignorance of truth and interception of
truth, combined with a longing to know truths (n. 1109, 2694).
Some by sleep; some by a middle state between wakefulness and
sleep (n. 1108). Those that have placed merit in works seem to
themselves to be cutting wood (n. 1110). Others in other ways,
with great variety (n. 699).
514. All who are in places of instruction dwell apart; for each one
is connected in regard to his interiors with that society of heaven
which he is about to enter; thus as the societies of heaven are
arranged in accord with the heavenly form (see above, n. 200-212), so
are the places there where instruction is given; and for this reason
when those places are viewed from heaven something like a heaven in a
smaller form is seen. They are spread out in length from east to
west, and in breadth from south to north; but the breadth appears to
be less than the length.
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