ternal sense of the Word that is in the world.{1}

{Footnote 1} In the internal sense of the Word by Abraham,
Isaac, and Jacob, the Lord in respect to the Divine itself and
the Divine Human is meant (n. 1893, 4615, 6098, 6185, 6276,
6804, 6847). In heaven Abraham is unknown (n. 1834, 1876,
3229). By David the Lord in respect to the Divine royalty is
meant (n. 1888, 9954). The twelve apostles represented the Lord
in respect to all things of the church, that is, all things
pertaining to faith and love (n. 2129, 3354, 3488, 3858, 6397).
Peter represented the lord in respect to faith, James in
respect to charity, and John in respect to the works of charity
(n. 3750, 10087). The twelve apostles sitting on twelve thrones
and judging the twelve tribes of Israel, signified that the
Lord will judge in accord with the truths and goods of faith
and love (n. 2129, 6397). The names of persons and of places in
the Word do not enter heaven, but are changed into things and
states; and in heaven these names cannot even be uttered (n.
1876, 5225, 6516, 10216, 10282, 10432). Moreover, the angels
think abstractedly from persons (n. 8343, 8985, 9007).

527. I can testify from much experience that it is impossible to
implant the life of heaven in those who in the world have lived a
life opposite to the life of heaven. There were some who had believed
that when after death they should hear Divine truths from the angels
they would readily accept them and believe them, and consequently
live a different life, and could thus be received into heaven. But
this was tried with very many, although it was confined to those who
held this belief, and was permitted in their case to teach them that
repentance is not possible after death. Some of those with whom the
experiment was made understood truths and seemed to accept them; but
as soon as they turned to the life of their love they rejected them,
and even spoke against them. Others were unwilling to hear them, and
at once rejected them. Others wished to have the life of love that
they had contracted from the world taken away from them, and to have
the angelic life, or the life of heaven, infused in its place. This,
too, was permitted to be done; but as soon as the life of their love
was taken away they lay as if dead, with their powers gone. By these
and other experiments the simple good were taught that no one's life
can by any means be changed after death; and