in himself enters heaven. This again makes evident that the Lord's
Divine mercy is pure mercy, and not mercy apart from means.{1}

{Footnote 1} Divine truth going forth from the Lord is the
source of order, and Divine good is the essential of order (n.
1728, 2258, 8700, 8988). Thus the Lord is order (n. 1919, 2011,
5110, 5703, 10336, 10619). Divine truths are the laws of order
(n. 2447, 7995). The whole heaven is arranged by the Lord in
accordance with His Divine order (n. 3038, 7211, 9128, 9338,
10125, 10151, 10157). Therefore the form of heaven is a form in
accord with the Divine order (n. 4040-4043, 6607, 9877). So far
as a man is living in accordance with order, that is, so far as
he is living in good in accordance with Divine truths, he is
receiving heaven in himself (n. 4839). Man is the being in whom
are brought together all things of Divine order, and by
creation he is Divine order in form, because he is a recipient
of Divine order (n. 3628, 4219, 4220, 4223, 4523, 4524, 5214,
6013, 6057, 6605, 6626, 9706, 10156, 10472). Man is not born
into good and truth but into evil and falsity, thus not into
Divine order but into the opposite of order, and for this
reason he is born into pure ignorance; consequently it is
necessary for him to be born anew, that is, to be regenerated,
which is effected by the Lord by means of Divine truths, that
he may be brought back into order (n. 1047, 2307, 2308, 3518,
8480, 8550, 10283, 10284, 10286, 10731). When the Lord forms
man anew, that is, regenerates him, He arranges all things in
him in harmony with order, that is, in the form of heaven (n.
5700, 6690, 9931, 10303). Evils and falsities are contrary to
order; nevertheless those who are in them are ruled by the Lord
not in accordance with order but from order (n. 4839, 7877,
10777). It is impossible for a man who lives in evil to be
saved by mercy alone, for that would be contrary to Divine
order (n. 8700).

524. If men could be saved by mercy apart from means all would be
saved, even those in hell; in fact, there would be no hell, because
the Lord is mercy itself, love itself, and goodness itself. Therefore
it is inconsistent with His Divine to say that He is able to save all
apart from means and does not save them. It is known from the Word
that the Lord wills the salvation of all, and the damnation of no
one.

525. Most of those who enter the other life from