in the world are received in heaven and become angels, each in accordance with the quality and degree of his intelligence and wisdom.  For whatever a man acquires in the world abides, and he takes it with him after death; and it is further increased and filled out, but within and not beyond the degree of his affection and desire for truth and its good, those with but little affection and desire receiving but little, and yet as much as they are capable of receiving within that degree; while those with much affection and desire receive much.  The degree itself of affection and desire is like a measure that is filled to the full, he that has a large measure receiving more, and he that has a small measure receiving less.  This is so because man’s love, to which affection and desire belong, receives all that accords with itself; consequently reception is measured by the love.  This is what is meant by the Lord’s words,

     To him that hath it shall be given, that he may have more
     abundantly (Matt. 13:12; 25:29).

     Good measure, pressed down, shaken together, and running
     over, shall be given into your bosom (Luke 6:38).

350.  All are received into heaven who have loved truth and good for the sake of truth and good; therefore those that have loved much are called the wise, and those that have loved little are called the simple.  The wise in heaven are in much light, the simple in less light, everyone in accordance with the degree of his love for good and truth.  To love truth and good for the sake of truth and good is to will and do them; for those love who will and do, while those who do not will and do do not love.  Such also love the Lord and are loved by the Lord, because good and truth are from the Lord.  And inasmuch as good and truth are from the Lord the Lord is in good and truth; and He is in those who receive good and truth in their life by willing and doing.  Moreover, when man is viewed in himself he is nothing but his own good and truth, because good is of his will and truth of his understanding, and man is such as his will and understanding are.  Evidently, then, man is loved by the Lord just to the extent that his will is formed from good and his understanding from truth.  Also to be loved by the Lord is to love the Lord, since love is reciprocal; for upon him who is loved the Lord bestows ability to love.

351.  It is believed in the world that those who have much knowledge, whether it be knowledge of the teachings of the church and the Word or of the sciences, have a more interior and keen vision of truth than others, that is, are more intelligent and wise; and such have this opinion of themselves.  But what true intelligence and wisdom are, and what spurious and false intelligence and wisdom are, shall be told in what now follows. [2] True intelligence and wisdom is seeing and perceiving what is true and good, and thereby what is false and evil, and clearly distinguishing