lso believed, therefore, that heaven can be given to the
evil as well as to the good, and that their association then is similar
to that in the world, with the difference that it is filled with joy.

[4] Second: _This belief comes from ignorance of the spiritual state,
which is altogether different from the natural state._ The spiritual
state, which is man's state after death, has been treated of in many
places above. It has been shown that everyone is his own love, that no
one can live with others than those who are in a like love, and that if
he comes among others he cannot breathe his own life. For this reason
everyone comes after death into a society of his own people, that is, who
are in a like love, and recognizes them as relatives and friends, and
what is remarkable, on meeting and seeing them it is as if he had known
them from infancy. Spiritual relationship and friendship bring this
about. What is more, in a society no one can dwell in any other house
than his own. Everyone in a society has his own home, which he finds
prepared for him as soon as he enters the society. He may be in close
company with others outside his home, but he cannot dwell elsewhere.
Again, in somebody else's apartment one can sit only in his own place;
seated elsewhere he becomes frustrated and mute. And it is remarkable
that on entering he knows his own place. This is as true in temples he
enters and in any companies in which people gather.

[5] It is plain from this that the spiritual state is altogether
different from the natural state, and is such that no one can be anywhere
but where his ruling love is to be found. For there the enjoyment of
one's life is, and everyone desires to be in the enjoyment of his life. A
man's spirit cannot be anywhere else because that enjoyment constitutes
his life, his very breathing, in fact, and his heartbeat. It is different
in the natural world; there man's external is taught from infancy to
simulate in look, speech and bearing other enjoyments than those of his
internal man. Accordingly, no conclusion can be formed about man's state
after death from his state in the natural world. For after death
everyone's state is spiritual and is such that he cannot be anywhere
except in the enjoyment of his love, an enjoyment that he has acquired in
the natural world by his life.

[6] Hence it is quite plain that no one who is in the enjoyment of hell
can be admitted into the enjoyment of heaven, commonly calle