ever in a blessed state._
This naturally follows. He who wills that man shall live forever also
wills that he shall live in a blessed state. What would eternal life be
without this? All love desires the good of another. The love of parents
desires the good of their children, the love of the bridegroom and the
husband desires the good of the bride and the wife, and love in
friendship desires the good of one's friends. What then must divine love
desire! What is good but enjoyment, and divine good but eternal
blessedness? All good is so named for its enjoyableness or blessedness.
True, anything one is given or possesses is also called good, but again,
unless it is enjoyable, it is a barren good, not in itself good. Clearly,
then, eternal life is also eternal blessedness. This state of man is the
aim of creation; that only those who come into heaven are in that state
is not the Lord's fault but man's. That man is in fault will be seen in
what follows.

[7] Third: _Thus every person has been created to come into heaven._ This
is the goal of creation, but not all enter heaven because they become
imbued with the enjoyments of hell, the opposite of heavenly blessedness.
Those who are not in the blessedness of heaven cannot enter heaven, for
they cannot endure doing so. No one who comes into the spiritual world is
refused ascent into heaven, but when one ascends who is in the enjoyment
of hell his heart pounds, his breathing labors, his life ebbs, he is in
anguish and torment and writhes like a snake placed near a fire. This
happens because opposites act against each other.

[8] Nevertheless, having been born human beings, consequently with the
faculties of thought and volition and hence of speech and action, they
cannot die, but they can live only with those in a similar enjoyment of
life and are sent to them, those in enjoyments of evil to their like, as
those in enjoyments of good are to their like. Indeed, everyone is
granted the enjoyment of his evil provided that he does not molest those
who are in the enjoyment of good. Still, as evil is bound to molest good,
for inherently it hates good, those who are in evil are removed lest they
inflict injury and are cast down to their own places in hell, where their
enjoyment is turned into joylessness.

[9] But this does not alter the fact that by creation and hence by birth
man is such that he can enter heaven. For everyone who dies in infancy
enters heaven, is brought up there a