either heaven or hell in least
form, heaven if he is led by the Lord, and hell if he is led by his
proprium. Inasmuch as it has been granted me to know what heaven and hell
are, and it is important to know what the human being is in respect to
his mind or spirit, I will describe both heaven and hell briefly.

300. All who are in heaven are nothing other than affections of good and
thoughts thence of truth, and all who are in hell are nothing other than
lusts of evil and imaginations thence of falsity. These are so arranged
respectively that the lusts of evil and the imaginings of falsity in hell
are precisely opposite to the affections of good and the thoughts of
truth in heaven. Therefore hell is under heaven and diametrically
opposite, that is, the two are like two men lying in opposite directions,
or standing, invertedly, like men at the antipodes, only the soles of
their feet meeting and their heels hitting. At times hell also appears to
be so situated or inverted relatively to heaven, for the reason that
those in hell make lusts of evil the head and affections of good the
feet, while those in heaven make affections of good the head and lusts of
evil the soles of the feet; hence the mutual opposition. When it is said
that in heaven there are affections of good and thoughts of truth from
them, and in hell lusts of evil and imaginations of falsity from them,
the meaning is that there are spirits and angels who are such. For
everyone is his affection or his lust, an angel of heaven his affection
and a spirit of hell his lust.

301. The angels of heaven are affections of good and thoughts thence of
truth because they are recipients of divine love and wisdom from the
Lord; for all affections of good are from the divine love and all
thoughts of truth are from the divine wisdom. But the spirits of hell are
lusts of evil and the imaginations thence of falsity because they are in
self-love and their own intelligence, and all lusts of evil come of
self-love and imaginations of falsity from one's own intelligence.

302. The ordering of affections in heaven and of lusts in hell is
marvelous, and is known to the Lord alone. They are each distinguished
into genera and species, and are so conjoined as to make a unit. As they
are distinguished into genera and species, they are distinguished into
larger and smaller societies, and as they are so conjoined as to make a
unit, they are conjoined as all things in man are. Hence in its