and justice. [2] As the life of everyone is determined
by these different kinds of love, as soon as men after
death enter the world of spirits they are examined
to discover their quality, and are joined to those
that are in a like love; those that are in heavenly
love to those that are in heaven, and those that are
in corporeal love to those that are in hell; and after
they have passed through the first and second state
they are so separated as to no longer see or know
each other; for each one becomes his own love, both
in respect to his interiors pertaining to his mind,
and in respect to his exteriors pertaining to his
face, body, and speech; for everyone becomes an image
of his own love, even in externals. Those that
are corporeal loves appear gross, dusky, black and
misshapen; while those that are heavenly loves appear
fresh, bright, fair and beautiful. Also in their
minds and thoughts they are wholly unlike, those that
are heavenly loves being intelligent and wise, while
those that are corporeal loves are stupid and as it
were silly. [3] When it is granted to behold the interiors
and exteriors of thought and affection of those that
are in heavenly love, their interiors appear like
light, and some like a flamy light, while their exteriors
appear in various beautiful colors like rainbows.
But the interiors of those that are in corporeal love
appear as if black, because they are closed up; and
the interiors of some who were interiorly in malignant
deceit appear like a dusky fire. But their exteriors
appear of a dirty color, and disagreeable to the sight.
(The interiors and exteriors of the mind and disposition
are made visible in the spiritual world whenever the
Lord pleases.) [4] Those that are in corporeal love
see nothing in the light of heaven; to them the light
of heaven is thick darkness; but the light of hell,
which is like light from burning coals, is to them
as clear light. Moreover, in the light of heaven
their inward sight is so darkened that they become
insane; consequently they shun that light and hide
themselves in dens and caverns, more or less deeply
in accordance with the falsities in them derived from
their evils. On the other hand those who are in
heavenly love, the more interiorly and deeply they
enter into the light of heaven, see all things more
clearly and all things appear more beautiful to them,
and they perceive truths more intelligently and wisely.
[5] Again, it is impossible for those who are in corporeal
love to live at all in the heat of heaven, for the
heat of heaven is heavenly love; but they can live
in the heat of hell, which is the love of raging against
others that do not favor them. The delights of
that love are contempt of others, enmity, hatred and
revenge; and when they are in these delights they are
in their life, and have no idea what it is to do good
to others from good itself and for the sake of good
itself, knowing only what it is to do good from evil
and for the sake of evil. [6] Those who are in corporeal


