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Such ways I have often been permitted to see, also spirits going and
walking in them freely, in accord with their affections and thoughts.
{Footnote 1} In the word "to journey," as well as "to go,"
signifies progression of life (n. 3335, 4375, 4554, 4585, 4882,
5493, 5605, 5996, 8181, 8345, 8397, 8417, 8420, 8557). "To go
(and to walk) with the Lord" means to receive spiritual life,
and to live with Him (n. 10567). "To walk" means to live (n.
519, 1794, 8417, 8420).
591. Evil continually breathes forth and ascends out of hell, and
good continually breathes forth and descends out of heaven, because
everyone is encompassed by a spiritual sphere; and that sphere flows
forth and pours out from the life of the affections and the thoughts
therefrom.{1} And as such a sphere flows forth from every individual,
it flows forth also from every heavenly society and from every
infernal society, consequently from all together, that is, from the
entire heaven and from the entire hell. Good flows forth from heaven
because all there are in good; and evil flows forth from hell because
all there are in evil. The good that is from heaven is all from the
Lord; for the angels in the heavens are all withheld from what is
their own, and are kept in what is the Lord's own, which is good
itself.
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