{"1": {"fulltext": "lV-A\\\\T!^\\nAND IIM", "height": "3898", "width": "2530", "jp2-path": "deathfuturestate00spen_0001.jp2"}, "2": {"fulltext": "LIBRARY OF CONGRESS.\\nCliap Copyright No. _;_\\nUNITED STATES X)F AMERICA.", "height": "3756", "width": "2396", "jp2-path": "deathfuturestate00spen_0002.jp2"}, "3": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3756", "width": "2396", "jp2-path": "deathfuturestate00spen_0003.jp2"}, "4": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3756", "width": "2396", "jp2-path": "deathfuturestate00spen_0004.jp2"}, "5": {"fulltext": "DEATH\\nAND THE\\nFUTURE STATE\\nBY\\nS. H. SPENCER\\nEditor of u The New Christianity\\nIthaca, N. Y.\\nTHE SWEDENBORG PUBLISHING ASSOCIATION\\nGERMANTOWN, PA.\\n1900.", "height": "3756", "width": "2396", "jp2-path": "deathfuturestate00spen_0005.jp2"}, "6": {"fulltext": "78106\\nLibrary of Concire\u00c2\u00aba\\nTwo Copies Re*tiv\u00e2\u0082\u00ac0\\nNOV 20 1900\\nCol \u00e2\u0099\u00a6\u00e2\u0080\u00a2\u00e2\u0080\u00a2\u00e2\u0096\u00a0jj(r a tftiry\\nSECOND COPY\\nDef VvKK 5 tO\\nORDtH DIVISION\\nNOV 2 3 1900\\nCopyright\\nBy THE SWEDENBORG PUBLISHING ASSOCIATION,\\n19 00.\\nWM F. FELL CO.,\\nELECTROTYPERS AND PRINTER8\\nPHILADELPHIA.", "height": "3756", "width": "2396", "jp2-path": "deathfuturestate00spen_0006.jp2"}, "7": {"fulltext": "TO THE DOUBTING, THE SORROWING,\\nAND THE TRUTH-LOVING.", "height": "3756", "width": "2396", "jp2-path": "deathfuturestate00spen_0007.jp2"}, "8": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3756", "width": "2396", "jp2-path": "deathfuturestate00spen_0008.jp2"}, "9": {"fulltext": "AT EVENTIME THERE SHALL BE\\nLIGHT.\\nHer quiet hands are folded\\nOver the quiet breast,\\nAnd over the silent features\\nHovers a dream of rest\\nFor the angels kissed her forehead\\nAnd touched her heart last night,\\nAnd closed her eyes so gently;\\nAnd at eventime there was light.\\nWeary with pain and labor,\\nAnd the toil of the day that was done,\\nShe came unto life s still evening,\\nAnd gazed on life s setting sun.\\nAnd the evening of life stole softly\\nAnd darkly over her sight;\\nBut the face of God shone through the gloaming,\\nAnd at eventime there was light.\\nAdolph Roeder.", "height": "3756", "width": "2396", "jp2-path": "deathfuturestate00spen_0009.jp2"}, "10": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3756", "width": "2396", "jp2-path": "deathfuturestate00spen_0010.jp2"}, "11": {"fulltext": "CONTENTS.\\nPAGE\\nIntroduction, 1\\nI. Death and Resurrection, 6\\nII. Judgment, Preparatory Schools, In-\\nterior Companionship, 15\\nIII.\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Vastation, 25\\nIV. Hell and Its Duration, 38\\nV. Life in Heaven, 56\\nVI. Life in Heaven (Continued), 70\\nVII.\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Sex and Marriage in Heaven, 88\\nVIII.\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Children in Heaven, 98\\nIX. The Vision of Joseph, 107\\nX. Light on the Hidden Way, 116\\nAppendix, 132\\n*-v\\nVU", "height": "3756", "width": "2396", "jp2-path": "deathfuturestate00spen_0011.jp2"}, "12": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3756", "width": "2396", "jp2-path": "deathfuturestate00spen_0012.jp2"}, "13": {"fulltext": "\u00e2\u0099\u00a6^t^-^^-i-^ S*^ 5\\nDEATH AND THE FUTURE STATE.\\nINTRODUCTION.\\nWho is not interested to know the experience\\nof a dear friend that has passed inside the gate\\nand taken the mysterious voyage all alone?\\nAll alone So it seems. But is he alone\\nHow did death seem to him Did he suffer?\\nWhere and what is he now Is he happy\\nDeath and resurrection have been dismal\\nwords, uttered by men and women of despair-\\ning faces and associated with emblems of\\nmourning. Nothing so dismally sad as a funeraL\\nWhy Because the tomb is dismal. Because\\nthe prevailing idea has been and still is that the\\ntomb must hold the dead form until the com-\\ning of an awful Judge, the spirit meanwhile a\\ndreamy vapor expectant of eternal bliss or in\\ndread of eternal woe because heaven is re-\\ngarded as but an endless religious meeting\\nwhere harps and crowns express before a great\\n1 1", "height": "3756", "width": "2396", "jp2-path": "deathfuturestate00spen_0013.jp2"}, "14": {"fulltext": "2 Death and the Future State.\\nwhite throne the joy and triumph of salvation\\na sad and selfish joy because the spiritual\\nworld is conceived of as an unnatural world;\\nand the kingdom of heaven as an arbitrary\\nkingdom because for spontaneity of soul in\\nall kinds of useful employments there is thought\\nto be the strain of sustained effort in everlasting\\nhallelujahs or because, the soul of the mourner\\nrevolting at such a prospect, there is serious\\ndoubt of another life at all.\\nThere is a clear and new-risen sunlight to\\ndispel these mists, and attractive and satisfying\\nis the view which is disclosed. Swedenborg is\\nthe chief human medium of this sunlight. Not\\nonly a scientist of recognized eminence, but a\\nseer of still greater eminence, and for many\\nyears an inhabitant of two worlds, he is properly\\nregarded as chief. As an inhabitant of two\\nworlds he wrote from observation and experi-\\nence, and as a seer he wrote from a mental\\nillumination so wonderful as to provoke incred-\\nulity in the worldly and materialistic mind.\\nHowever, this fact is nothing except for the\\nenlightenment and quickening of a benighted\\nchurch and world.\\nThere is much in spiritualistic literature, and\\neven in published experiences of people who", "height": "3756", "width": "2396", "jp2-path": "deathfuturestate00spen_0014.jp2"}, "15": {"fulltext": "Introduction. 3\\nare neither Spiritists nor Swedenborgians, that\\nconfirms and further illustrates the teachings of\\nSwedenborg. Insomuch it is to be welcomed\\neven by the New Churchman, who, from read-\\ning Swedenborg exclusively, must have a more\\nor less fixed view, lacking that variety and\\nfullness which find expression through many\\nminds, from many points of view, and from\\nrelation to new and different cases.\\nThe New Churchman must remember that\\nthe spiritual world is not a fixed world, that a\\ndescription of its scenes written over a century\\nago must be very different from a description\\nwritten to-day, even by the same writer. That\\nworld is in a state of perpetual flux and change,\\naccording to the states of those through whom\\nits phenomena are projected. Without human\\ncenters through which the One Center of All\\ncontinually creates, it would be a skyless, sun-\\nless, earthless blank but as those centers pro-\\ngress as instruments of the Divine Love and\\nAVisdom, that universe is evolved, renewed and\\nperfected. The same laws ever control, of course,\\nin all spiritual and creative processes the same\\nattraction into groups remains, and the same\\nexpressing of inward states by outward corre-\\nspondences. But there is no end of new vistas", "height": "3756", "width": "2396", "jp2-path": "deathfuturestate00spen_0015.jp2"}, "16": {"fulltext": "4 Death and the Future State.\\nand new heavens for the opening soul, and no\\nend of filling up or perfecting of outlines\\nthrough additions to heavenly societies. No\\ntwo spirits experience or see exactly the same\\nthings, even though they be the most congenial\\nmembers of the same society and the more\\nunlike they are, the more unlike must be the\\nphenomena about them, which are objected from\\ntheir interiors.\\nNo, it is not a fixed world, as a reader of but\\none reporter is apt to think it, but a world liv-\\ning and changing far beyond our conception\\neven if we get every possible glimpse of it.\\nNo seer can report it for all time or for all men,\\nhowever comprehensive and particular his de-\\nscriptions and any one who expects to find\\ndeath and resurrection and judgment and heaven\\nor hell just as Swedenborg has described them\\nwill wonder exceedingly at the difference of his\\nexperience and observation from what he had\\nexpected.\\nThis is not at all to be understood as derog-\\natory to the mission of the great Swedish seer\\nas a servant of God to open the gates of a new\\nmorning upon a benighted world nor is it to\\nencourage leaving the writings of an illumined\\nyet thoroughly balanced philosopher and scien-", "height": "3756", "width": "2396", "jp2-path": "deathfuturestate00spen_0016.jp2"}, "17": {"fulltext": "Introdvction. 5\\ntist for the crude products of unculture aud\\nsuperstition which appear in many newspapers\\nand books. It is only to be understood as\\nencouraging the disposition of those who\\nare familiar with the grand outline and par-\\nticular illustrations presented in Swedenborg s\\nHeaven and Hell, and some of his other\\nworks, to find additional illustrations in the\\ntestimony of credible and capable witnesses who\\nare multiplying about us.\\nIt is our purpose, in a few chapters, to\\npresent first the teaching of Swedenborg re-\\nspecting death, resurrection and the future\\nstate, and then to illustrate further his teach-\\ning by witnesses of our own day, thus to make\\nless rigid and more living and complete the\\nview which comes of reading him exclusively.\\n*^M?^", "height": "3756", "width": "2396", "jp2-path": "deathfuturestate00spen_0017.jp2"}, "18": {"fulltext": "w\\nCHAPTER I.\\nDEATH AND RESURRECTION.\\nSwedenborg s knowledge of death, resurrec-\\ntion and the future state is not merely philosoph-\\nical, but came largely from his own personal\\nexperience, and from conversations with the de-\\nparted in the spiritual world, for many years,\\nabout the middle of the 18th century.\\nIn his w r ork entitled Heaven and Hell,\\npublished in London in 1758, may be found\\nsubstantially the following description of one of\\nhis experiences\\nI was once brought into a state of insensi-\\nbility as to the body, thus nearly into the state\\nof dying persons, while yet my interior life\\nand the faculty of thought remained entire,\\nso that I could perceive and remember what\\ntranspired, and thus know what it is to die.\\nThe respiration of my body was almost\\ntaken away, that which remained being gentle\\nand tacit and perceptibly connected with the\\nrespiration of my spirit. Then through the\\npulse of my heart communication was opened\\n6", "height": "3756", "width": "2396", "jp2-path": "deathfuturestate00spen_0018.jp2"}, "19": {"fulltext": "Death and Resurrection. 7\\nwith the angels of the celestial kingdom, which\\nkingdom corresponds to the heart. Angels from\\nthat kingdom became visible some at a dis-\\ntance, two seated near my head. Their affection\\nwas so intense as to deprive me of all affection\\nproper to myself, but perception and thought\\nremained. I was in this state for some hours.\\nThe spirits (not the celestial angels) then with-\\ndrew, supposing that I was dead for they per-\\nceived an aromatic odor like that of an em-\\nbalmed corpse. This is perceived when celestial\\nangels are present, and spirits cannot endure it.\\nThus evil spirits are prevented from near ap-\\nproach to the spirit of man while it is passing\\ninto the other life.\\nThe angels seated near my head were silent,\\nonly communicating with my thoughts. When\\ntheir thoughts are received (as well as their\\naffection), then they know that the spirit of the\\ndying one is ready to be drawn forth from the\\nbody. Their thoughts were communicated to\\nme by looking into my face. But they first\\nsought to know my thought, for they wish the\\nlast thought of a dying person to be fixed upon\\neternal life, until he shall return to the thoughts\\nproper to his ruling love.\\nIt was given me particularly to perceive and\\nfeel that there was a drawing or pulling out of\\nthe interiors of my mind, thus of my spirit, from\\nmy body and I was told that thus resurrection\\nis effected by the Lord. (No. 449.)", "height": "3756", "width": "2396", "jp2-path": "deathfuturestate00spen_0019.jp2"}, "20": {"fulltext": "8 Death and the Future State,\\nWhen the body is no longer capable of per-\\nforming its functions in the natural world as an\\ninstrument of the spirit s thoughts and purposes,\\nwhich are from the spiritual world, then a man\\nis said to die. The lungs cease to breathe, and\\nthe heart ceases to beat. But really the man\\ndoes not die he is only separated from his cor-\\nporeal part, which is of no more use to him.\\nThe man himself lives for man is not man by\\nvirtue of his body, but by virtue of his spirit.\\nIt is the spirit that loves and thinks, and love\\nand thought make the man. The man only\\npasses from conscious existence in one world to\\nconscious existence in the other. Hence it is\\nthat death means resurrection.\\nA man s thought is connected with this world\\nby means of his breathing, and his love or\\naffection by means of the motions of his heart\\nand when the breath and pulsation entirely\\ncease, especially the latter, then the separation\\nis immediate. The sundering of these two\\nbonds leaves the spirit to itself, and the body to\\nitself and to coldness and to decomposition.\\nHeart and lungs are the two inmost bodily\\nmeans of connection with the spirit, because\\nthey are the chief or central bodily organs, the\\nblood of the heart and the oxygen of the lungs", "height": "3756", "width": "2396", "jp2-path": "deathfuturestate00spen_0020.jp2"}, "21": {"fulltext": "Death and Resurrection, 9\\npassing from these organs into every part of the\\nbody.\\nThe time required for the separation depends\\nupon the nature of the disease, but is usually\\ntwo or three days. As long as there is any\\nvital heat in the body the separation is not\\ncomplete, for vital heat is produced by the\\nspirit s love.\\nThe spirit of man is a human form, corre-\\nsponding to that of the body. It has head and\\nfeet, trunk and limbs, eyes, ears and nerves.\\nThese are mind forms and organs, within the\\nmaterial body. The spirit senses are sheathed\\nin those of the body, in its every part, and it is\\nreally they and not the bodily senses that see,\\nhear, feel, etc. But so gross are these spirit\\nsenses in most persons, in consequence of merely\\noutward exercise of them, as to be entirely\\nclosed to spiritual perceptions and the things of\\nthe spiritual world. To all persons, however,\\ndeath is an unveiling, especially to the objects\\nof the spiritual world and to those who are\\nprincipled in good it is an introduction to a\\nclearer perception of spiritual truths and of the\\nmeaning of eternal life. To some there is an\\noccasional unveiling or opening to spiritual-\\nworld scenes during their earth life, when, like", "height": "3756", "width": "2396", "jp2-path": "deathfuturestate00spen_0021.jp2"}, "22": {"fulltext": "10 Death and the Future State.\\na mirage, things and people of the spiritual\\nworld appear in the most vivid and convincing\\nreality. And the people are heard speaking, in\\nsome cases, and are even touched without any\\nappearance of anything of the person s body\\nintervening. This state of opened spirit-senses\\nis described as one midway between waking and\\nsleeping, though the appearance is that the per-\\nson is awake. It is the state which the apostle\\nPaul describes when, in speaking of visions\\nand revelations, he says Whether in the\\nbody or out of the body I cannot tell God\\nknoweth.\\nTo have these visions may not be a proof of\\nhigh spirituality or character in the one having\\nthem, but may be due to some physical weak-\\nness or derangement. Many have them in the\\nhour of death. And yet these visions would\\nnever have ceased among men, had there been\\nno decline in spirituality from the high state of\\nthe Most Ancient Church. They were quite\\ncommon in the primitive Christian Church, too,\\nwhile yet it was in the simplicity of the Chris-\\ntian life.*\\nTo people who are not principled firmly in righteous-\\nness and truth, communicating with spirits is attended\\nwith danger.", "height": "3756", "width": "2396", "jp2-path": "deathfuturestate00spen_0022.jp2"}, "23": {"fulltext": "Death and Resurrection. 11\\nSwedenborg describes an experience of being\\ncarried of the spirit to another place.\\nWalking along the streets of a city, and\\nthrough fields/ he says, conversing also with\\nspirits at the same time, I knew not otherwise\\nthan that I was awake and seeing as at other\\ntimes. Thus I walked on without mistaking\\nthe way, being in vision meanwhile, seeing\\ngroves, rivers, palaces, houses, men and various\\nother objects. But after walking thus for\\nsome hours, I suddenly returned to my bodily\\nsight, and discovered that I was in another\\nplace. In such case distance is not\\nthought of nor time attended to, nor is there\\nany fatigue, and the person is led unerringly\\nthrough ways that he is ignorant of, even to the\\nplace of his destination. Heaven and Hell,\\n441.\\nIt reminds one of the words of John in the\\nApocalypse, And he carried me away in the\\nspirit to a great and high mountain, and showed\\nme that great city, the holy Jerusalem, descend-\\ning out of heaven from God. It must be a\\ndelightful experience, if we may judge from\\nour own sensations while gliding over the\\nground without touching, simply floating along\\nin the air, in one of these states between waking\\nand sleeping, which one can never forget. No", "height": "3756", "width": "2396", "jp2-path": "deathfuturestate00spen_0023.jp2"}, "24": {"fulltext": "12 Death and the Future State.\\nevent of one s outward or ordinary experience\\ncan impress itself so vividly or permanently as\\na part of life s experience. Those who have\\npassed inside the gate of death and returned\\nby recovery, very commonly speak of this ex-\\nperience of indescribable lightness and freedom.\\nThe human spirit also breathes while in the\\nmaterial body and afterward, though but few\\nsince the ancient days of conscious internal res-\\npiration are conscious of it while living in the\\nbody. This internal respiration is not a breath-\\ning of the material atmosphere, but of the\\nspiritual the atmosphere of thought. Indeed\\nour word inspiration when applied to a\\nspeaker or writer means the inbreathing of\\ndivine thought. One s faith is his spiritual\\nbreath. It animates and sustains him, and he\\nbreathes it out in thought and words and per-\\nsonal sphere. Also one s love is his spiritual\\nheart and life, and love never fails. If it is\\nlove for God as supreme, and for the neighbor\\nas one s self, then it is the life of an angel if\\nit is love of self and the world as supreme, then\\nit is the life of a devil.\\nMan is a human form as to his spirit, because\\nhe has the faculty of receiving divine love and\\nwisdom, which are the essence and maker of", "height": "3756", "width": "2396", "jp2-path": "deathfuturestate00spen_0024.jp2"}, "25": {"fulltext": "Death and Resurrection. 13\\nhuman form. But to be a true or perfect hu-\\nman form in one s spirit, he must have this\\nfaculty developed.\\nImmediately after death the spirit s appear-\\nance and expression are about the same as\\nbelonged to the person while he was in the\\nbody but he enters at once by various attrac-\\ntions of spirits, good and evil, into a process\\ncalled the judgment, and eventually finds his\\nplace among those of his kind, and then, his\\nreal character having asserted itself without any\\ndisguise, he may appear very differently.\\nThe surroundings, too, are so familiar that it\\nis difficult for the resurrected one to believe at\\nfirst that he has changed worlds. All corre-\\nspond to his yet scarcely changed state of\\nthought and life, for his surroundings in the\\nspirit world are but his mental states projected.\\nBut these will change as he changes.\\nAttendants are given for his safe passage\\nfrom the body. These are celestial angels, the\\nonly ones in heaven who love others more than\\nthemselves, and whose penetrating perceptions\\nmake them the most fit to welcome and guard\\nthe newly risen. And these do not leave him\\nuntil he is inclined to leave them. Then angels\\nof the spiritual heaven appear as guides, and give", "height": "3756", "width": "2396", "jp2-path": "deathfuturestate00spen_0025.jp2"}, "26": {"fulltext": "14 Death and the Future State.\\nhim spiritual light. Scale-like coverings fall\\nfrom his eyes, and there is, as it were, a rolling\\noff of something from his face, and he is as one\\nwaking from sleep. Then for natural he re-\\nceives spiritual thought. These angelic guides\\naim to suppress every idea which does not\\nsavor of love. They tell him that he is a spirit,\\nperform all helpful offices, and instruct him\\nconcerning the things of heavenly life so far as\\nhe can comprehend them and desires to receive\\nthe instruction. Here again he may dissociate\\nhimself, and then good spirits appear with their\\nkind offices; but if from all who are good and\\npure he separates himself, then he finds his real\\nlife and delight among those who are evil and\\nimpure like himself.", "height": "3756", "width": "2396", "jp2-path": "deathfuturestate00spen_0026.jp2"}, "27": {"fulltext": "^^-^^^^^^H^\\nCHAPTER II.\\nJUDGMENT, PREPARATORY SCHOOLS,\\nINTERIOR COMPANIONSHIP.\\nWe have briefly followed Swedenborg s de-\\nscription of man s passage by death into the\\nworld of spirits, and of his attendance by angels\\nand good spirits, successively, according to his\\nwish to remain with or withdraw from them,\\nand have seen that in a few days after his\\ndecease he finds company and continues life\\nwith such spirits as are in agreement with his\\nlife as it was on earth.\\nHe is still in the exteriors of thought and\\nlife, and therefore has a similar face, tone of\\nvoice and other personal appearance to what he\\nhad on earth and he is known by friends from\\nearth, and knows them in turn. Earth s broken\\nties are reunited, and may for a time remain so.\\nBut in that world of the yet exterior life is\\nwhat is called the judgment. That world of\\nlately deceased spirits is the intermediate depart-\\nment of the spiritual world as a whole. Its\\n15", "height": "3756", "width": "2396", "jp2-path": "deathfuturestate00spen_0027.jp2"}, "28": {"fulltext": "16 Death and the Future State.\\ninhabitants are in the intermediate state between\\nheaven and hell, which is a state of inevitable\\npreparation for one or the other. There is no\\npermanence of abode in it now, since the last\\nGeneral Judgment, though some may remain\\nfor a few years. As soon as the interior and\\nreal life comes out and the false or conflicting\\nexterior is put off, so that the person is extern-\\nally just what he is internally, then the prepara-\\ntion for heaven or hell is completed, except that\\nthose who are to enter heaven must still receive\\nthe instruction necessary to fit them for the par-\\nticular society in heaven to which they belong.\\nSo there are two states of the evil after death,\\nand three states of the good.\\nThe time required for this judgment, or this\\ndevelopment of the real character, varies with\\ndifferent individuals. The hypocrite is the\\nlongest in throwing off* his cloak. His saint-\\nlike face, voice, bearing and behavior are\\npeculiarly persistent because of his habit of\\ndisposing his interiors in ways to imitate good\\naffections. He may be a very amiable person\\nfor a long time, and not unbeautiful in appear-\\nance but when his concealed character does\\ncome out he is more deformed than others.\\nThe form of every one after death, and after", "height": "3756", "width": "2396", "jp2-path": "deathfuturestate00spen_0028.jp2"}, "29": {"fulltext": "Preparation and Interior Companionship. 17\\nhis real character develops, is beautiful in the\\ndegree that he has in the earth-life inwardly\\nloved divine truths, which means, of course,\\nthat he has outwardly lived them. The pro-\\nfoundest lovers are in person the most divinely\\nradiant. They eat of the bread of life and\\ndrink of the fountain of youth, and their\\nspiritual bodies are made of this food and drink.\\nThe longer they live in heaven, the more beau-\\ntiful and youthful they become. But the lovers\\nof evil and its falsities show a deformed and\\ndecrepit spiritual body, which grows more\\nmonstrous and more skeleton-like until they\\nscarcely resemble human beings.\\nWith the good there is no desire to conceal;\\nbut concealment of evil character is not long\\npossible after death, because they who have\\nrisen out of the material body have no longer\\nthat body for a covering. Only the mental\\nhabit of concealment remains, and in a body\\nwhich is a mind the habit is a twist that cannot\\nlong be borne. The mask that remains grows\\ntoo transparent the senses of those good spirits\\nwho are mingled with upon the basis of earthly\\nattachments are too acute real affinities are too\\nquickly and freely found; truth is too searching,\\njudgment too thorough and severe. The veryin-\\n2", "height": "3756", "width": "2396", "jp2-path": "deathfuturestate00spen_0029.jp2"}, "30": {"fulltext": "18 Death and the Future State.\\ntention of every evil deed is written within the\\nevil spirit as in a book. Good spirits learn to read\\nthis book, and in their presence the memory of\\nthe judged one yields up its contents, even from\\ninfancy, before him. The result is that his life\\nstands out in all its nakedness, and he shrinks\\nfrom the pure light, and seeks congenial dark-\\nness in some low and hidden place, whither he\\nis drawn by some society in evil genius and\\nquality like himself. I have a number of\\ntimes observed, says Swedenborg, that cer-\\ntain simple good spirits wished to instruct the\\nevil in truths and in goodness of life, but that\\nthe latter fled far away from the proffered in-\\nstruction and when they came to their asso-\\nciates they caught with much pleasure at the\\nfalsities which agreed with their love. This\\nis their judgment, and this is their hell.\\nThe instruction given to those who are in\\npreparation for heaven is such as they earnestly\\ndesire, and is inspired by the love of that use\\nto which each one s genius inclines him. Each\\nis already in vital relationship to a heavenly\\nsociety that will receive him with great joy, and\\nhis place and function in that society waits to\\nbe filled by him as no other in the universe can\\nfill it. Only in that place and function can he", "height": "3756", "width": "2396", "jp2-path": "deathfuturestate00spen_0030.jp2"}, "31": {"fulltext": "Preparation and Interior Companionship. 19\\nbe happy and increase the happiness of others.\\nEach instructed one has an object in life which\\nto him is life itself, and the instruction received\\nis committed immediately to life with that ob-\\nject in view. There is no faith alone or idle\\nspeculation.\\nMultitudes attend these preparatory schools,\\nor rather dwell in them, and the schools are or-\\nganized after the manner of the heavenly\\nsocieties to which the several classes or groups\\nare destined. Thus in the world of spirits, just\\noutside the gates of the eternal heaven, is a\\nschool which is itself a heaven in anticipation.\\nIts employments are the employments of love.\\nThey are love s own wise and beneficent activi-\\nties for the common good, and every activity\\nillustrates a truth and opens more the receptive\\ncapacity of the learner and doer. It is an in-\\nspired life, aided by all the wealth of outward\\nillustration peculiar to a world whose objects\\nare created by and change with and represent\\nspiritual states and ideas. The love of truth is\\nthus insinuated, and the love of truth has its\\nfulness of delight in the doing of truth. There\\nis no law for compulsory attendance at this\\nschool. Youth and adults, males and females,\\nChristians and pagans, Jews and gentiles, and", "height": "3756", "width": "2396", "jp2-path": "deathfuturestate00spen_0031.jp2"}, "32": {"fulltext": "20 Death and the Future State.\\nall the races of our earth, all who will may\\nenjoy its exalted benefits, tuition free. But the\\none essential benefit, and that which introduces\\nto heaven, is not knowledge, but heavenly life\\nby means of knowledge.\\nThey especially need to take a full course\\nin that school who, being well disposed in the\\nearth-life, have not had sufficient instruction on\\nearth. But the man who has been regenerated\\non earth passes at once to his place in heaven.\\nThe attainment of heavenly life by means of\\nknowledge is the standard for final examination.\\nThere were some spirits, says Swedenborg, who\\nwere confident that they would enter heaven,\\neven in preference to others, because they were\\nlearned and knew much about the Sacred Scrip-\\ntures and the doctrines of their churches. They\\nimagined that they were wise and would there-\\nfore shine as the stars of the firmament. But\\nthey had missed the chief requirement. Being\\nexamined, they were found to have their knowl-\\nedge in memory and not in life. They could\\nnot shine, because knowledge shines only\\nfrom the love of it for the sake of service to\\nothers, in which case it transfigures the life.\\nBut in order that they might be withdrawn\\nfrom the foolish belief that they would be", "height": "3756", "width": "2396", "jp2-path": "deathfuturestate00spen_0032.jp2"}, "33": {"fulltext": "Preparation and Interior Companionship, 21\\nhonored and served by angels on account of\\ntheir superior learning, they were permitted\\nto approach the entrance of the first or lowest\\nheaven. The result was that they were blinded\\nby the light that met their eyes, confused in\\nmind, began to pant for breath like dying\\npersons, were tortured by the heavenly love\\nwhich the light conveyed, and so were cast\\ndown. Then they sincerely wished to be in-\\nstructed in the right way, and the instruction\\nwas given them.\\nBecause one s development after death is great\\nand rapid, he may in a few years be so changed\\nin appearance that his earthly friends would not\\nknow him, and all external ties may have been\\nforgotten for internal. Even family ties give\\nway to attachments spiritual and eternal. This\\ndoes not mean that good spirits lose interest in\\nany friend here or there, for they love all human\\nbeings with a love that is purer and stronger\\nthan even the tenderest natural affection. If\\nthere is a mutual desire to meet, there will be a\\nmeeting for it is a law of the entire spiritual\\nworld that desire and thought bring presence.\\nBut the desire to meet on the basis of external\\nattachments cannot exist in the spirits who have\\npassed out of externals into a permanent in-", "height": "3756", "width": "2396", "jp2-path": "deathfuturestate00spen_0033.jp2"}, "34": {"fulltext": "22 Death and the Future State.\\nterior state, and thus out of the intermediate\\nworld into heaven or hell. Consequently all\\nmeetings of an earthly or. natural character\\nmust take place in the intermediate world, and\\nnot with any one there after the maximum limit\\nof about thirty years, now since the last General\\nJudgment, which took place in the year 1757.\\nThose who have been acquaintances and\\nfriends meet and converse in the world of spirits\\nwhensoever they desire, especially husbands and\\nwives, brothers and sisters, parents and children\\nthough if their characters and dispositions are\\ndissimilar they soon separate. But they who\\npass from the world of spirits into heaven or\\nhell, see each other no more, nor longer know\\nanything about each other, unless they are of\\nsimilar disposition and similar loves. And\\nthis is because they who are in the world of\\nspirits can be brought into states similar to those\\nwhich they experienced in the life of the body,\\nand because they who are in the permanent state\\nof their ruling love, and so in heaven or hell,\\ncannot.\\nIf a child in the preparatory heavenly school\\nin the world of spirits should be drawn by a\\nlately deceased parent s merely natural wish to\\nsee it, the meeting would be effected by the now", "height": "3756", "width": "2396", "jp2-path": "deathfuturestate00spen_0034.jp2"}, "35": {"fulltext": "Preparation and Interior Companionship. 23\\nmuch grown and much changed child s coming\\nagain temporarily into a former state, and so\\ntaking again the exterior which the parent\\nwould recognize. And so of a much changed\\nwife or husband.\\nWhether husband and wife remain husband\\nand wife will depend upon how truly they have\\nloved, and how soul-united they are. One\\nmarried partner meets another, says our Seer,\\nand they mutually congratulate; they also re-\\nmain together for a time, longer or shorter\\naccording to the delight that has attended their\\ndwelling together in the world. Nevertheless,\\nif love truly conjugial, or union of minds from\\nheavenly love, has not conjoined them, then,\\nafter remaining together for some time, they\\nseparate. But if their minds have been dis-\\ncordant, and interiorly averse to each other, they\\nbreak out in open enmity, and sometimes ac-\\ntually quarrel.\\nSince only those who are yet in the inter-\\nmediate state can return to former states and\\nexteriors, therefore they who communicate w r ith\\nspirits may be greatly deceived if they suppose\\nthey are conversing with friends who are in\\nheaven. To realize this supposition, they them-\\nselves would have to be in a similar angelic love", "height": "3756", "width": "2396", "jp2-path": "deathfuturestate00spen_0035.jp2"}, "36": {"fulltext": "24 Death and the Future State.\\nto those friends, and this may mean even more\\nthan their regeneration. The deception is prac-\\ntised by deceitful spirits who, from the conscious\\nor even latent memories of those who are seek-\\ning intercourse, assume exteriors which readily\\npass for those of the friends whose presence is\\ndesired.\\n^5^^\u00c2\u00bb", "height": "3756", "width": "2396", "jp2-path": "deathfuturestate00spen_0036.jp2"}, "37": {"fulltext": "CHAPTER III.\\nVASTATIOK\\nNearly all, before entering heaven or hell,\\nhave to undergo vastation in the world of\\nspirits, or intermediate state, since very few at\\ndeath are wholly good or wholly evil. Many\\npersons who are inwardly well disposed are con-\\nfirmed either in evil habits which they have\\nnot been able to throw entirely off in the earth-\\nlife, or in false ideas and beliefs, with either\\nof which they are incapable of heavenly life;\\nalso, many who are internally ill disposed pass\\ninto that intermediate world with a fair and\\neven religious exterior, of which they must be\\ndivested before they can be really themselves\\nand find their own place and people. This put-\\nting off of exteriors that are not in agreement\\nwith interiors is vastation.\\nThe present chapter will illustrate somewhat\\nthe process of vastation as experienced by those\\nwho are being prepared for heaven.\\n25", "height": "3756", "width": "2396", "jp2-path": "deathfuturestate00spen_0037.jp2"}, "38": {"fulltext": "26 Death and the Future State.\\nHaving been accustomed to think hopefully\\nof heaven when in the earth-life, they continue\\nso to think of it in the intermediate world, and\\nto form similar conceptions of it. But they\\nmust get rid of these conceptions if false, and\\nbe educated for heaven as it is. Some very in-\\nteresting descriptions of their experience are\\ngiven by Swedenborg in his True Christian\\nKeligion, Nos. 734-739.\\nSome had imagined that heavenly joys con-\\nsisted in the most delightful associations and\\nintercourse, and so were introduced to compa-\\nnies who had ia the world entertained the same\\nidea. The place of meeting was a spacious\\nhouse containing over fifty apartments, distin-\\nguished according to the topics of conversa-\\ntion, such as neighborhood affairs, amiable\\nqualities of the fair sex, political events, trade,\\nliterature, morals, church, etc. Soon they were\\nseen running about from one apartment to an-\\nother, every one trying to find those who the\\nmost perfectly sympathized with him and could\\nthe most fully participate in his delight. Some\\nwere panting to speak, some eager to ask ques-\\ntions, some eager to hear. The house had a\\ndoor on each side, and in the course of two or\\nthree days many were seen at these doors sigh-", "height": "3756", "width": "2396", "jp2-path": "deathfuturestate00spen_0038.jp2"}, "39": {"fulltext": "Vastation. 27\\ning and weeping to go out. They were sick\\nof the continued meeting and talking but the\\ndoors would not open. When any one would\\nknock at a door for it to open, the answer came,\\nStay and enjoy the delights of heaven. They\\nwere in utter despair, thinking that they must\\nstay in that heaven to eternity. But an angel\\nfinally told them that it was only the death of\\ntheir mistaken joys that they had taken the\\naccessory joys of heaven for the real. What,\\nthen, is heavenly joy? they eagerly inquired.\\nAnd the angel answered It is the delight\\nof doing something which is of use to one s\\nself and to others. The essence of this de-\\nlight is love, and the existence of it is wis-\\ndom. Pleasant and exhilarating intercourse is\\nfor angels after they have performed uses in\\ntheir offices and employments and then there\\nis a soul and life in all their entertainments.\\nThen the doors were opened, and the despairing\\nones leaped out and ran home, each to his par-\\nticular occupation.\\nAnother group were introduced into the felic-\\nity which they had imagined, that of feasting\\nwith Abraham, Isaac and Jacob and other\\nScripture worthies. They were led through a\\ngrove into a plain, where there was a great floor", "height": "3756", "width": "2396", "jp2-path": "deathfuturestate00spen_0039.jp2"}, "40": {"fulltext": "28 Death and the Future State.\\non which tables were set fifteen on one side\\nfor the three patriarchs and the twelve apostles,\\nand fifteen on the other for their wives. Soon\\nthe tables were covered with dishes, and the\\nintervening spaces were ornamented with little\\npyramids filled with sauces. Then came the\\nprocession of patriarchs, apostles and wives,\\neach taking his seat at the head of a table, and\\ninviting the newly arrived guests to occupy the\\nother places. The men sat down with the\\npatriarchs and apostles, and the women with\\nthe wives, and ate and drank with joy and ven-\\neration. After dinner, games were introduced,\\nand dances and shows and then came feasting\\nagain. But this was to be varied by all the\\nmen eating one day with Abraham, the next\\nday with Isaac, and so on, and by all the\\nwomen following the same order with their\\nhostesses, for fifteen days, when the festivities\\nshould be renewed in like order, and this to\\neternity. The result was loathing and sadness.\\nHere were fifty guests, and there fifty, who\\nhad filled their stomachs to loathing, and now\\nbegged permission to return to their proper oc-\\ncupations. They were urged to stay, because it\\nwould be a shame for guests thus to leave those\\nancient worthies; but they were permitted to", "height": "3756", "width": "2396", "jp2-path": "deathfuturestate00spen_0040.jp2"}, "41": {"fulltext": "Vastation. 29\\ngo, and each returned speedily to his useful\\nwork. They were told, however, that in heaven\\nthere are feasts and various amusements, but\\nthat the delights of them are from the use\\nwhich every one performs in his daily life; in-\\ndeed that the food corresponds in every respect\\nto the use performed, being magnificent for\\nthose who are in superior uses, and less mag-\\nnificent for those who are in inferior uses, but\\nexquisitely relished by all.\\nThe chiefs at the heads of the tables were not\\nAbraham, Isaac and Jacob and the apostles, but\\nbearded old men who had fancied themselves\\nsuch.\\nAnother group had believed that they would\\nreign with Christ forever, and be ministered to\\nby angels. These, wishing to be admitted to\\ntheir ideal heaven, were led by the angel to a\\nportico constructed of columns and pyramids.\\nThen appeared another who personated an angel,\\nand he told them that the way to heaven was\\nthrough that portico; but that they must wait\\na while and prepare themselves, because the\\nolder ones of them were to be kings and the\\nyoung ones princes. This being said, there ap-\\npeared near each column a throne on which\\nwere a robe of silk, a scepter and a crown;", "height": "3756", "width": "2396", "jp2-path": "deathfuturestate00spen_0041.jp2"}, "42": {"fulltext": "30 Death and the Future State.\\nand near each pyramid a seat raised three cubits\\nfrom the ground, on which were a chain of little\\nlinks of gold, and badges of nobility fastened\\ntogether at the ends with diamond rings. They\\nneeded no urgent invitation to put on their gar-\\nments and take their places on the thrones\\nand seats, for they did so quickly and joyfully.\\nThen they were told to wait. A thick cloud\\narose from below, and was drawn to them as\\nthey sat; and their faces swelled, and their\\nbreasts heaved, with confidence that now really\\nthey were kings and princes. The cloud was\\nthe exhalation of this fantasy. Then flew to\\nthem young men, as it were, from heaven, and\\nstood two behind each throne, and one behind\\neach seat, to minister; and the proclamation\\nwas made by a herald, Kings and princes,\\nwait yet a little while your palaces in heaven\\nare now being prepared very soon the courtiers,\\nwith the guards, will come and introduce you.\\nThey waited and waited, until their spirits\\ndrooped and they became weary with desire.\\nAfter three hours the heaven opened over their\\nheads, and the angels looked down in pity, and\\nsaid, Why do you sit thus infatuated, and act\\nparts that do not belong to you They have\\nplayed tricks with you, and changed you from", "height": "3756", "width": "2396", "jp2-path": "deathfuturestate00spen_0042.jp2"}, "43": {"fulltext": "Vastation. 31\\nmen into idols, because you had taken it into\\nyour hearts that you were to reign with Christ\\nas kings and princes and have angels minister\\nunto you. Have you forgotten the words of\\nour Lord, that in heaven whosoever wishes to\\nbe great, let him become a servant? Learn\\nthen what is meant by being kings and princes,\\nand what by reigning with Christ that it is\\nto be wise and do uses for the kingdom of\\nChrist, which is in heaven, is a kingdom of\\nuses. There are in the heavens, as on\\nearth, supereminent dominions and the richest\\ntreasures; for there are governments and forms\\nof government, and thus greater and less\\npowers and dignities and those who are in the\\nhighest stations have palaces and courts which\\nexceed in magnificence and splendor those of\\nemperors and kings on earth and from the\\nnumber of their courtiers, ministers and guards,\\nand from the magnificent vestures of these,\\nhonor and glory surround them. But those\\nhighest ones are chosen from those whose hearts\\nare in the public welfare, and only their bodily\\nsenses, not their hearts, are in the amplitude of\\nmagnificence, for the sake of obedience.\\nThen there was a getting down from the\\nthrones and high seats, a casting away of seep-", "height": "3756", "width": "2396", "jp2-path": "deathfuturestate00spen_0043.jp2"}, "44": {"fulltext": "32 Death and the Future State.\\nters and crowns and robes and badges, and the\\nthick cloud of fantasy receded and a bright\\ncloud, in which was the aura of wisdom, encom-\\npassed, and sanity returned to the minds of the\\ninfatuated.\\nThen the angel called to him those who be-\\nlieved that heaven was a paradise, with perfect\\nrest from labor, with naught to do but delight\\nthe senses with beauty and fragrance and fes-\\ntive repasts. These were likewise introduced to\\ntheir joys. In paradise they saw a great multi-\\ntude of both sexes and all ages; and sitting\\nthree and three, and ten and ten, upon beds of\\nroses, were women and girls wreathing garlands\\nto adorn the heads of the old men, the arms of\\nthe young men and the bosoms of the boys.\\nOthers were pressing into cups juice from grapes,\\ncherries and mulberries, and drinking merrily;\\nothers were inhaling the fragrance of flowers\\nand fruits and leaves from all directions others\\nwere singing sweet songs, soothing to the ears\\nof those present others were sitting by foun-\\ntains, and directing into various forms the gush-\\ning streams others were walking and talking,\\nand scattering wit and pleasantry others were\\ngoing into arbors and lying down upon couches.\\nCould anyone weep in such a heaven as this?", "height": "3756", "width": "2396", "jp2-path": "deathfuturestate00spen_0044.jp2"}, "45": {"fulltext": "Vastation. 33\\nReally it was heaven, externally. Yes, they\\nfound weeping for, led along winding paths,\\nthey came to a most beautiful bed of roses sur-\\nrounded by olive, orange and citron trees, w T here\\nwere sitting some who held their faces in their\\nhands and wept. Why do you sit thus?\\nasked the angel s companions. And they an-\\nswered, It is now the seventh day since w r e\\ncame into this paradise. When we entered, our\\nminds seemed elevated into heaven, and let into\\nthe inmost happiness of its joys but after three\\ndays those pleasures began to grow dull, to lose\\ntheir relish in our minds, and to become im-\\nperceptible, and thus nothing; and when our\\nimaginary joys thus expired, we feared the loss\\nof all the enjoyment of our life, and became\\ndoubtful about eternal happiness, whether there\\nbe any such thing. Afterwards we wandered\\nthrough streets and uninhabited places in search\\nof the gate through which we had entered, in-\\nquiring of whomsoever we met; but we were\\ntold that the gate could not be found because\\nthis paradise is such a spacious labyrinth that\\nthey who try to get out only get further in, that\\nwe were in the middle where all its delights\\ncenter, and must remain here to eternity. We\\nhave been sitting here for a day and a half\\n3", "height": "3756", "width": "2396", "jp2-path": "deathfuturestate00spen_0045.jp2"}, "46": {"fulltext": "34 Death and the Future State.\\nwithout hope, and the more we sense the abun-\\ndance of olives, grapes, oranges and roses, the\\nmore our sight and smell and taste are wearied.\\nTo this the conducting angel replied, This\\nparadise is truly an entrance to heaven. I\\nknow the way out of it, and will lead you out.\\nThen the despairing ones arose and embraced\\nthe angel, and followed him, with his company.\\nAnd the angel taught them that heavenly joys\\nare not external delights, unless there are corre-\\nsponding delights in the soul. And they all\\nasked, What is the delight of the soul, and\\nwhence is it The answer was, u The delight\\nof the soul is from love and wisdom from the\\nLord, and the seat of both is in use. This de-\\nlight from the Lord flows into the soul, descend-\\ning through the mind into all the senses of the\\nbody, becoming eternal joy from the eternal\\nsource of it. Every leaf of this paradise exists\\nfrom the marriage of love and wisdom in use^\\nand if man be in this marriage he is in a\\nheavenly paradise, thus in heaven.\\nAnother group believed heavenly joy to be a\\nperpetual glorification of God, because in the\\nworld they had believed that they should see\\nand worship God as in a perpetual sabbath.\\nThese were introduced by the angel into a little", "height": "3756", "width": "2396", "jp2-path": "deathfuturestate00spen_0046.jp2"}, "47": {"fulltext": "Vastatio7i. 35\\ncity, in the midst of which was a temple, and\\nall the houses of which were called sacred\\nchapels. Here they saw a multitude flowing in\\nfrom every corner of the country, and priests\\nwho saluted them and led them to the gates of\\nthe temple, and thence into some of the chapels\\naround the temple, and initiated them into the\\neverlasting worship of God, telling them that\\nthis temple and city were the entrance to the\\nmost spacious and magnificent temple and city in\\nheaven, where God is glorified by the angels with\\nprayers and praises to eternity. The statutes of\\nthe little city were that the worshipersshould first\\nenter into the temple and remain there three days\\nand nights, then go into the chapels consecrated\\nby the priests, and from chapel to chapel, and join\\nthose in worship who were already assembled,\\npraying and shouting, and rehearsing what had\\nbeen preached. Every thought must be holy,\\npious, religious. Our company entered the\\ntemple, thronged with people great and com-\\nmon, passing guards at gates whose duty it was\\nto let no one out until he had staid three days.\\nMany they found asleep, others yawning, others\\nseeming to have their faces severed from their\\nbody, all wearied. There was a general turn-\\ning away from the pulpit, and they cried, Oh,", "height": "3756", "width": "2396", "jp2-path": "deathfuturestate00spen_0047.jp2"}, "48": {"fulltext": "36 Death and the Future State.\\nfinish your discourses your voice is no longer\\nheard the sound of it is intolerable. Then\\nall rose together, ran to the gates, broke them\\nopen and drove away the guards. The priests\\nfollowed, teaching, praying, and exhorting,\\nCelebrate the festival glorify God sanctify\\nyourselves we are initiating you into the eternal\\nglorification of God in that most spacious and\\nmagnificent temple on high. Let us alone,\\nthey cried we feel as if we should faint\\nand they tore away from the priests. Then ap-\\npeared four men in white garmeuts, wearing\\nmitres, one having been an archbishop in the\\nworld, and the others bishops, but all now angels.\\nAddressing the priests, they said We have\\nseen you from heaven with these sheep, how you\\nfeed them, even to insanity. You know not\\nwhat is meant by the glorification of God. It\\nmeans to produce the fruits of love; that is,\\nto do faithfully, sincerely and diligently the\\nwork of one s station. This is of the love of\\nGod and the neighbor, which is the bond and\\ngood of society. By this God is glorified,\\nand by worship at stated times. You priests\\ncan continue in the glorification of worship, be-\\ncause this is your office and your glory and rec-\\nompense. Otherwise you could not, more than", "height": "3756", "width": "2396", "jp2-path": "deathfuturestate00spen_0048.jp2"}, "49": {"fulltext": "Vastation. 37\\nthey. And the angel bishops commanded the\\ngate-keepers to let all in and all out, since there\\nare many who cannot think of any other\\nheavenly joy than perpetual worship, because\\nthey know nothing of the heavenly state.\\nThe experiences are given of others who be-\\nlieved that heavenly joy and eternal happiness\\nwere only admission into heaven by divine grace.\\nThese were admitted far enough into the heaven\\nof white-clad angels to discover that they were\\nguests without the wedding garment, and then\\nwere mercifully cast out, to desire heaven no\\nmore as a place, but only as a life among their\\nlike, wherever that might be.\\nEvery one who becomes an angel carries with-\\nin himself his own heaven, because in him is\\nthe love which makes his own heaven.", "height": "3756", "width": "2396", "jp2-path": "deathfuturestate00spen_0049.jp2"}, "50": {"fulltext": "CHAPTER IV.\\nHELL AND ITS DURATION.\\nDeath ends in resurrection. Resurrection is\\nconscious and entire entrance into the interme-\\ndiate state between heaven and hell, called the\\nworld of spirits. This entrance is the begin-\\nning of judgment, just as the entrance of food\\ninto the stomach is the beginning of its separa-\\ntion into nutriment and excrement. The good\\nare attracted to and become incorporated in the\\nheavenly human body, and the evil are cast\\nout. They are cast out, however, by their own\\ndislike of a heavenly life, and drawn together\\nin infernal societies by sensual and selfish affini-\\nties. This judgment is merely the evolution of\\nwhat already rules and is confirmed in each life,\\nand is quickly passed, the time varying from a\\nfew days with some to a few years with others.\\nAnd hell is the portion of the ungodly But\\nwhat is hell? An evil and false life is itself a\\nhell, even on earth. It has not in it the divine\\nlove and light and aim which make heaven.\\n38", "height": "3756", "width": "2396", "jp2-path": "deathfuturestate00spen_0050.jp2"}, "51": {"fulltext": "Hell and Its Duration. 39\\nOnly self rules, and its rule is darkness. Only\\nthe natural faculties are developed, and these\\nare employed in the service of self. No spir-\\nitual faculty is open, by which heaven may be\\nknown. The way has not been walked in, on\\nwhich rises heaven s sun. The higher life\\nthan the natural and selfish and gross is un-\\nknown, or belief in it is not entertained. There\\nhas been no thrill or quickening from the\\nheights where love of fellow-man is life s\\ndivine incentive no spiritual birth or, if\\nthere has been, it has been stilled by the head-\\nlong rush for self-gratification. A world is hell\\nif composed of people of this kind, and every\\njudgment of divine truth condemns it. And\\nthis is the condemnation that light is come\\ninto the world, and men love darkness rather\\nthan light, because their deeds are evil. An\\nevil life is hell, and its own loves cast it out of\\nthe kingdom of light into outer darkness.\\nIs there suffering? Yes; there cannot be\\nsin without suffering. Yet much that is pitia-\\nble in the devil s condition is his want, even his\\nignorance, of the happiness which spiritual de-\\nvelopment brings. From him the higher and\\nreally human existence is shut out. He is out\\nof the real beneficence of divine law, because", "height": "3756", "width": "2396", "jp2-path": "deathfuturestate00spen_0051.jp2"}, "52": {"fulltext": "40 Death and the Future State.\\nhe is out of the true order of life. The true\\norder is for the natural or animal in man to\\nsubserve the spiritual. The spiritual is awak-\\nened by the Divine Spirit, which broods over\\nall; which speaks to us through childhood\\nmemories, memories of innocence and dear re-\\nlationships; which appeals to us through all\\nthat is beautiful and true and good in nature\\nand in fellow-man which is present in the\\nreverent reading of Sacred Scripture, and in\\nmeditation upon the life and sayings of the\\nChrist. The bliss of ignorance here is the bliss\\nof only an animal existence the reward of\\ndisobedience a most vital deformity. Not to\\nknow is to remain out of heaven, and to sin\\nagainst knowledge is to shut out by confirmed\\nhabit and organic inversion the only power that\\nopens heaven. What more hopeless state can\\nbe imagined than that in which the sacredness\\nof sacred things is lost or ceases to appeal? To\\nbe lashed by an outraged conscience is terrible,\\nbut to have forsaken conscience until it can lash\\nno more is hell. Devils have no conscience.\\nThey have drowned it in the current of their\\nruinous propensities and about them is no as-\\nsociation that can bring it back to life. They\\nare at ease in the delights of an inverted life,", "height": "3756", "width": "2396", "jp2-path": "deathfuturestate00spen_0052.jp2"}, "53": {"fulltext": "Hell and Its Duration. 41\\nexcept as they are restrained in their gratifica-\\ntions by punishments from the clashings of\\ncommon interest or by the horrors of their own\\nexcesses. Their highest law is the law of self\\nall consideration of others happiness is under\\ntheir feet. Thus they are the antipodes of\\nangels, whose highest law is love of others.\\nBetween them and the angels there is a great\\ngulf, or expanse, and the devils stand below\\nthis with feet upward. What is highest in the\\nangel s life is lowest in the devil s. What is\\nhell to the angel is heaven to the devil. What\\nis filthy and abhorrent to those in heaven is\\nclean and pleasing to those in hell. Cruelty,\\nadultery, profanation, cunning and dominion\\nconstitute the delight and life of hell, and yet\\nhell is collectively governed by the operation of\\nthese very principles. It is self against self;\\nit is restraint by fear; it is punishment surely\\nfollowing the transgression of the infernal\\nwishes of others. With a view to the most tol-\\nerable existence in social relations, even devils\\nlearn to treat one another with the necessary\\nrespect. So far is this true, according to Swe-\\ndenborg, that the common torment of those\\nin hell consists in their being withheld from\\ntheir loves. And yet they are ever being", "height": "3756", "width": "2396", "jp2-path": "deathfuturestate00spen_0053.jp2"}, "54": {"fulltext": "42 Death and the Future State.\\ninfested interiorly by the love of their false\\nprinciples and by the cupidities of their evil,\\nwhich make the restraints and punishments\\nnecessary. Their only life is a quenchless fire\\nof an infernal love, and their only wisdom the\\nsulphurous light of that love and in conflict\\nthe billows of this lake of fire and brimstone\\ngrow weary, and then there are order and\\ncalm. There are friendships, it is true there\\nare infernal groups bound together in similar\\ndelights and employments but they are friend-\\nships like those of bands of thieves and rob-\\nbers, wholly selfish, wholly false.\\nDoes evil bring any other punishments upon\\nits lovers in hell, than those which are govern-\\nmentally inflicted? All analogy would teach\\nthat it does. As no law of bodily health can\\nbe transgressed without evil result, so it must\\nbe in the matter of spiritual health. And if\\nthe personal appearance of a devil takes the\\nvery form of the evil love which animates him,\\nwhether it be that of a serpent, a wolf, a hog or\\nan owl or even a skeleton, even though to him-\\nself it is a form corresponding to his delight\\nand thus not hideous as when viewed from\\nheaven, yet this deformity is one of gradual re-\\nsult, and shows the destructive work of evil in", "height": "3756", "width": "2396", "jp2-path": "deathfuturestate00spen_0054.jp2"}, "55": {"fulltext": "Hell and Its Duration. 43\\nthe devil himself. It is presumable, therefore,\\nthat there are limits beyond which infernal de-\\nlights cannot be enjoyed without internal suffer-\\ning and we are told by Swedenborg that there\\nare excesses which result in the utmost horror\\nand loathing. It seems that this would eventu-\\nally destroy the capacity to enjoy evil. And\\nwhy not, since an inverted state of life must\\nbring results the opposite of those eternally life-\\ngiving results of right living which the angels\\nexperience? Surely there must be a time with\\nevery lost soul when iniquity shall have an end,\\nand when new and higher delights shall begin.\\nWill not the deformed remnants, even the bare\\nskeletons, of human souls then be created anew\\nSwedenborg says many things to indicate\\nthat they will, if he does not affirm it; and yet\\nhe teaches, in other places in his writings, very\\npositively the opposite. As we are treating the\\nhells in the light of his revelations, our readers\\nshall here have the benefit of some of what seem\\nto be conflicting passages on this matter of a\\nsoul s endless existence in hell.\\nIN HELL TO ETERNITY.\\n1. The life of man cannot be changed after\\ndeath it remains then such as it has been.", "height": "3756", "width": "2396", "jp2-path": "deathfuturestate00spen_0055.jp2"}, "56": {"fulltext": "44 Death and the Future State.\\nNor can the life of hell be transcribed into the\\nlife of heaven, since they are opposite. Hence\\nit is evident that they who come into hell re-\\nmain there to eternity, and that they who come\\ninto heaven remain thereto eternity. Arcana\\nCcelestia, 10,749.\\n2. A man is altogether such as the ruling\\nprinciple of his life is. By this he is distin-\\nguished from others. According to this his\\nheaven is made, if he is good and his hell, if\\nhe is evil. It is his very will, his selfhood, his\\nnature for it is the esse of his life. This, after\\ndeath, cannot be changed, because it is the man\\nhimself. True Christian Religion, 399.\\n3. I have been permitted to converse with\\nsome who lived twenty centuries ago, whose\\nlives are known because described in history\\nand I found that they still retained their dis-\\ntinctive characters with others who\\nlived seventeen, four, and three centuries ago,\\nand a similar affection was found to rule in them\\nstill. I have been told by the angels that the life\\nof the ruling love is never changed with any one\\nto eternity, since every one is his own love;\\nwherefore to change that love in a spirit would\\nbe to deprive him of his life, or to annihilate\\nhim. They also stated the reason why the life\\nof the ruling love is never changed with any\\none after death which is, that man after death\\nis no longer capable of being reformed by in-\\nstruction, as in the world, because the ultimate\\nplane, which consists of natural knowledge and", "height": "3756", "width": "2396", "jp2-path": "deathfuturestate00spen_0056.jp2"}, "57": {"fulltext": "Hell and Its Duration. 45\\naffection, is then quiescent, and cannot be opened\\nbecause it is not spiritual that the interiors of\\nthe natural and of the rational mind rest upon\\nthat plane, like a house upon its foundation.\\nHeaven and Hell, 480.\\nNumber 464 is here referred to, in which it\\nis said that though the external or natural mem-\\nory is in man after death, yet the merely natural\\nthings in that memory are then spiritual, corre-\\nsponding to the natural but that, nevertheless,\\nwhen these spiritual things are exhibited to the\\nsight they appear in forms similar to the natural.\\nIt seems to us, then, that these exhibitions to the\\nsight of one who has sufficiently suffered for his\\nevils might serve as a basis of reformation by\\ninstruction. And in Spiritual Diary (426), it\\nis said of the souls of the dead who had lived\\nnear the end of the age before the Last Judg-\\nment (when there was no faith on earth), and\\nwho were in an inverted order in the other life,\\nthat they retained the fantasies in which their\\nlife still consisted, and by these fantasies might\\nbe led to knowledge and prepared for heaven.\\nIn this connection read the following from\\nArcana Coelestia, 561\\nThe goods and truths which a man has\\nlearned from the Word of the Lord from child-", "height": "3756", "width": "2396", "jp2-path": "deathfuturestate00spen_0057.jp2"}, "58": {"fulltext": "46 Death and the Future State.\\nhood up, and all his states of innocence from\\ninfancy, such as love toward parents, brothers\\nand sisters, teachers and friends, and charity\\ntoward others and pity for them, these are\\ncalled remains. They are preserved in man by\\nthe Lord, and are stored up, quite without his\\nknowledge, in his internal man and are sepa-\\nrated entirely from the things that are of man s\\nown, or from evils and falsities. All these\\nstates are so preserved in man by the Lord,\\nthat not the least of them is lost. This I know,\\nbecause every state of a man, from his infancy to\\nextreme old age, not only remains in the other\\nlife but also returns, and this just as they were\\nwhen he was living in the world. And when\\nstates of evil and falsity or of malice and fantasy\\nrecur which they do, every one, even to the\\nleast particular then these states are tempered\\nby the Lord by means of the good states. From\\nthese facts it may be evident that if man had no\\nremains, he could not but be in eternal con-\\ndemnation.\\nOf those who perished in the Flood it is then\\nsaid, that at last they had almost no remains;\\nand that never before or since were any people\\nin so abominable and deadly loves and persua-\\nsions. Yet in the year A. D. 1747, after thou-\\nsands of years, all of these that had been in a\\ncertain direful and abominable hell had been", "height": "3756", "width": "2396", "jp2-path": "deathfuturestate00spen_0058.jp2"}, "59": {"fulltext": "Hell and Its Duration. 47\\nbrought out, and some of them created anew.\\nSpiritual Diary/ 286.)\\n4. They who are cast into hell endure evils\\ncontinually more grievous, and this until they\\ndare not occasion evil to any one; and after-\\nwards they remain in hell to eternity, whence\\nthey cannot be extracted, because it cannot be\\ngiven them to will good to any one, only not to\\ndo evil from fear of punishment, the lust to do\\nso always remaining. Arcana Ccelestia, 754.\\n5. There were some who had imagined that\\nthey should easily receive divine truths after\\ndeath, when they should hear them from the\\nangels, and that they should believe them, and\\nconsequently should live a different life, and\\nthus be received into heaven. But the experi-\\nment was made with them, in order that they\\nmight know that repentance after death was not\\ngiven. Some of them understood truths, and\\nseemed to try to receive them but as soon as\\nthey turned to the life of their love they rejected\\nthem and even spoke against them. Some re-\\njected them immediately, being unwilling to\\nhear them. Some were desirous that the life of\\nthe love w r hich they had contracted in the world\\nmight be taken away from them, and that an-\\ngelic life, or the life of heaven, might be infused\\nin its place. This also was accomplished for\\nthem but when the life of their love was taken\\naway, they lay as if dead, having no longer the", "height": "3756", "width": "2396", "jp2-path": "deathfuturestate00spen_0059.jp2"}, "60": {"fulltext": "48 Death and the Future State.\\nuse of any of their faculties. Heaven and\\nHell, 527.\\nNOT IN HELL TO ETERNITY.\\n1. There is a region, to the left of Gehenna*\\nwhich, in proportion as the punishments are\\nmore grievous, extends itself thereunder. There\\nthe spirits appear only as dire serpents, with\\nlarge bellies. Here, underneath Gehenna, are\\nthe punishments of those who breathe revenge,\\neven to the destruction of the souls of men, and\\nthecondemningof them to hell. In such\\na dungeon these dragon-like spirits live in direful\\nfantasies. They cannot indeed hurt one another,\\nbut are divested, as it were, of rationality, and\\nresemble monsters. There they remain for cen-\\nturies, until their former life is altered; for as\\nthe delights of their life consisted in revenge,\\nthese delights cannot be extinguished but with\\nsuch life, wherefore they remain in that state\\nuntil they no longer know that they had been\\nmen. Thus their former life dies, but yet re-\\nmains, and they are enabled by a superadded\\ngift of the Lord to alter their life; in which\\nability so long as they can be preserved, they\\ncan be continued among a certain class of spirits;\\nbut of what quality they then approve them-\\nselves has not been given me to know.\\nSpiritual Diary, 1495-7.\\n2. In a chapter on Hell and the Infernal", "height": "3756", "width": "2396", "jp2-path": "deathfuturestate00spen_0060.jp2"}, "61": {"fulltext": "Hell and Its Duration. 49\\nCrew Spiritual Diary, 284-7), which crew\\nappeared to him from the lowest hell, and\\nwere seeking after innocent virgins, and imag-\\nined themselves gods with the universe under\\ntheir feet, he says I was afterward told from\\nheaven, that such are there [in that hell] as\\nhave very little of the human principle left,\\nand that they remain there for centuries, some\\nhaving been there already twenty centuries.\\nThere are, however, none of those there who\\nperished in the time of the Flood, for they have\\nbeen brought out of that direfully infernal tun\\nand there are those who have been created anew.\\nHe is speaking here of the lowest infernal\\ncrew, or the worst in hell, who are nothing\\nbut deceit and serpentine venom, and thus\\ndirectly the opposite of mercy and innocence.\\n3. In a chapter on The State of the Damned\\nin Hell Spiritual Diary, 228), he says that\\nhe was let down to the unhappy in hell, that he\\nmight perceive their state and hence announce\\nto the world, and especially to unbelievers, that\\nthere is a hell and what is the state of those who\\nare there. There were lamentations, and calls\\nto God and Christ for mercy. There were\\ncomplaints against certain other spirits, called\\nfuries, who inflicted torments. Consolation\\n4", "height": "3756", "width": "2396", "jp2-path": "deathfuturestate00spen_0061.jp2"}, "62": {"fulltext": "50 Death and the Future State.\\nwas given. Afterward he was told that God\\nMessiah appeared in glory to the unhappy ones,\\nand they received greater consolation. Still\\nlater he saw many of them raised from hell\\nand torments into heaven.\\nWhat seems to be a summary of this last de-\\nscribed experience is given in the Arcana\\nCoelestia, 699, in an introduction to a series\\nof chapters on Hell, and preceding the sum-\\nmary is the following explanation Besides\\nthe hells, there are also vastations. For a man\\nand even one who has lived uprightly takes\\nwith him into the other life, from actual sins,\\ninnumerable evils and falsities, which he heaps\\nup and binds together. Before such can be\\ntaken up into heaven, his evils and falsities\\nmust be dissipated. This dissipation is called\\nvastation. There are many kinds of vastations,\\nand longer and shorter periods of vastation.\\nThat I might witness the torment of those who\\nare in hell, and the vastation of those who are in\\nthe loiver earthy I have at different times been\\nlet down thither.\\nIt would seem, then, that the damned in\\nhell who received consolation and deliver-\\nance were some in the world of spirits who\\nwere undergoing vastation in what are called", "height": "3756", "width": "2396", "jp2-path": "deathfuturestate00spen_0062.jp2"}, "63": {"fulltext": "Hell and Its Duration. 51\\npits or prisons. But plainly there is a depar-\\nture here from Swedenborg s usual care in\\nclassification for now follows his announce-\\nment of the heads of five chapters, four of\\nwhich are descriptions of as many various hells,\\nand the fifth treats of those who are in vasta-\\ntion. Here is the careful classification. And\\nso if we find anything in either of the first four\\nchapters that indicates the end of the infernal\\nstate with any soul, we must take it as proof\\nthat Swedenborg, when treating of hell as\\nknown to him before the Last Judgment, of\\n1757, gives reason for hope for the very worst\\nand lowest infernals for it would be impossible\\nto conceive of worse hells, even after the Last\\nJudgment, than are here described.\\nIn the first chapter, which treats of the hells\\nof hatred and revenge, is this very hopeful in-\\ndication They live in dreadful fantasies,\\nand there for ages, until they no longer know\\nthat they have been men. Their life which\\nthey have derived from such hatreds and re-\\nvenges cannot otherwise be extinguished.\\nIn the second chapter, which treats of the\\nhells of the lascivious, adulterous and deceitful,\\nhe says, in speaking of adulterers: This\\npunishment [appearing to be in the belly of a", "height": "3756", "width": "2396", "jp2-path": "deathfuturestate00spen_0063.jp2"}, "64": {"fulltext": "52 Death and the Future State.\\nfilthy harlot who is changed into a great\\ndragon] returns many times daring hundreds\\nand thousands of years, until they are imbued\\nwith a horror of such lusts. And in the same\\nchapter, speaking of the lascivious, he says\\nBy these violent alternations [having the\\njoints put out of place and back again], to-\\ngether with their struggles in resistance, they\\nare so rent that they seem to themselves as if\\ndismembered and torn in bits, with frightful\\npain; and this time after time, until, struck\\nwith horror at such principles of life, they cease\\nto think that way.\\nThe fourth chapter is the most interesting.\\nAfter describing various horrible punishments\\ninto which the infernals are led by their foul\\nlusts, until they acquire shame, terror and hor-\\nror for such things and at length desist from\\nthem, and after stating that something is re-\\nmoved by each punishment, and that because\\nof the equilibrium of all things in the other\\nlife evil punishes itself, he writes that noted\\npassage (No. 967) Unless evil could be taken\\naway by means of punishment, those in whom it\\nexists could not but be kept in some hell to\\neternity.\\nBut in the fifth chapter, which treats of", "height": "3756", "width": "2396", "jp2-path": "deathfuturestate00spen_0064.jp2"}, "65": {"fulltext": "Hell and Its Duration. 53\\nVastations, he describes the states of those\\nafter death who in the world have lived in\\nsimplicity and ignorance, yet whose conscience\\nhas restrained them from indulging in evils to\\nthe extent that those have whom he has classed\\nas devils in hell. Girls who have been enticed\\ninto harlotry and thus persuaded that there is\\nno evil in it, but who are in other respects\\nrightly disposed, undergo severe chastisements\\nwhenever they burst out into thought of wan-\\ntonness. Those persons who have confirmed\\nthemselves altogether in false principles are re-\\nduced to complete ignorance and confusion, so\\nthat when they but think of the ideas in which\\nthey were confirmed they have inward pain.\\nAfter vastation in pits in what he calls the\\nlower earth, that open into the hells, all these\\nare instructed by angels and received into\\nheaven. Only once in this chapter is the word\\nhell used. It is in this closing sentence:\\nBut adult women who have been harlots and\\nhave enticed others, do not undergo vastation,\\nbut are in hell.\\nClearly, then, Swedenborg does not only in-\\ndicate that the worst devils in hell may, after\\nages of suffering, be created anew, but plainly\\nsays of such that unless evil could be taken", "height": "3756", "width": "2396", "jp2-path": "deathfuturestate00spen_0065.jp2"}, "66": {"fulltext": "54 Death and the Future State.\\naway by means of punishments, those in whom\\nit exists could not but remain in some hell\\nto eternity. And here he is not speaking of\\nthose who undergo what he calls vastation.\\nBut can sufferings regenerate the soul No\\nnor yet, if, as Swedenborg teaches, no soul is\\nborn for hell, but every one for heaven, can we\\nbelieve that the Divine Arm is so shortened\\nthat it cannot by inward way (for even devils\\nhave not lost vital connection with their inmost\\nCreator and Preserver) open the long closed\\ngates of love and light. Sufferings do bring\\nreformation and cannot God breathe new life\\ninto a human spirit by means of those inmost\\nremains of innocence which are never lost,\\neven though that spirit has been reduced to a\\nskeleton or a beastly form To say that He\\nwho has created every soul for heaven cannot,\\nis to deny that His wisdom and power are equal\\nto His love.\\nTo console ourselves with the idea that hell\\nis heaven to the devil, or an eternally delight-\\nful existence, must be a poor consolation from\\nan angel s point of view, and hard to believe in\\nview of such terrible revelations as even Swe-\\ndenborg gives us.", "height": "3756", "width": "2396", "jp2-path": "deathfuturestate00spen_0066.jp2"}, "67": {"fulltext": "Hell and Its Duration, 55\\nTo urge against this doctrine of imperishable\\nhope the argument that it encourages the sinner\\nto postpone repentance, is absurd since the be-\\nlief that every sin brings its own full punish-\\nment, even to the end of that sin, is enough to\\ndeter from sin, and more than this is not reason-\\nable. If, as Swedenborg says of those big-bellied\\ndragons underneath Gehenna, their former life\\ndies after centuries, and they are enabled by a\\nsuperadded gift of the Lord to alter their life,\\nthen upon others of the lowest and worst hells\\neven upon those who are nothing but deceit\\nand serpentine venom may there not dawn\\nthe hope of being created anew\\nBut let us pray to have part in the first res-\\nurrection let us overcome while in the earth-\\nlife, so that we may not experience the second\\ndeath.", "height": "3756", "width": "2396", "jp2-path": "deathfuturestate00spen_0067.jp2"}, "68": {"fulltext": "-W^C ggo o!g^^ W _\\nCHAPTER V.\\nLIFE IN HE A VEN.\\nIt is a pity that the doctrine of vicarious\\natonement has so obscured and travestied the\\nheavenly life, both here and hereafter, as to\\nleave it with only a gloomy attraction a\\nheavenly life seen only through Calvary. Its\\nvery songs are sad; its self-denial includes\\neverything that would divert the mind from\\nChrist crucified its good works have noth-\\ning to do with justification in the sight of God\\n(as that is effected solely by Christ s obedience\\nand sufferings), but are only a justification of\\none s faith in the sight of men its service of\\nGod is prayers, other religious observances and\\nalmsgiving. In this doctrine of vicarious sac-\\nrifice, with the assurance of eternal election\\nwhich it gave, and the ceremonial and conven-\\ntional observances which it imposed, it is not\\ndifficult to see the secret of the repulsiveness\\nand fruitlessness of the Jewish religion as ex-\\nposed and denounced by the Christ.\\n56", "height": "3756", "width": "2396", "jp2-path": "deathfuturestate00spen_0068.jp2"}, "69": {"fulltext": "Life in Heaven. 57\\nThe heavenly or truly religious life is not\\nthat alternating sadness and rapture, nor that\\nmere showing of one s faith by ceremonial and\\nconventional observances, which the doctrine of\\nvicarious atonement produces as its legitimate\\nfruit; it is a life of faith in God s law of right\\ndoing, a life of use from the love of God and\\nfellow-man. It employs every faculty, and de-\\nvelops a full and normal manhood and woman-\\nhood. To receive and manifest the true life,\\none must look to the living Christ and the\\nspiritual blood, not to a dying Christ and literal\\nblood supposed to purchase eternal life. It is\\nthe living Christ in the soul, the Christ-love-\\nand-mercy-and-justice, with the spiritual truths\\nwhich this Christ principle is ever shedding,\\nthat constitutes eternal life and if we eat this\\ndivine flesh and drink this divine blood, eternal\\nlife is thereby given to us. If we apply this\\nblood to our sins of selfish and evil purpose\\nand thought and deed, it will cleanse us. The\\ndivine life comes into us, and is acknowledged\\nas having its source in God and not in our-\\nselves. Consequently all the works of this new\\nlife are of God, and the merit of them is His.\\nBy this life and these works we are saved, trans-\\nformed into the divine likeness, and all the", "height": "3756", "width": "2396", "jp2-path": "deathfuturestate00spen_0069.jp2"}, "70": {"fulltext": "58 Death and the Future State.\\npraise is to our Regenerator, not to us, nor to\\nany man or angel.\\nSo the heavenly life must be a very full and\\nuseful life, and a proportionately happy one;\\nand since it is the life of our Creator Himself\\ndeveloped in us, it must be a natural life,\\nthough spiritual. There is no renunciation of\\nnatural delights, as there is no renunciation of\\nnatural uses, but only a making of them sub-\\nservient to heavenly principles. All the plea-\\nsures and faculties of the natural man are thus\\nlifted up and glorified, as is signified by the\\nserpent lifted up in the wilderness. They be-\\ncome turned away from self to fellow-man, in\\ntheir ultimate aim. Food comes to be eaten to\\nsustain the body for a life of usefulness accord-\\ning to the principles of honesty and justice, and\\nnot to sustain it for a life of injury to others\\naccording to the principles of dishonesty and in-\\njustice. All recreations and pursuits serve this\\nsame heavenly purpose, and become the more\\ndelightful in consequence. Natural delights\\nare not renounced, but made subservient to\\ndivine principles, and this exalts and regulates\\nthem and gives them an ever-renewed relish.\\nIn heaven as well as in the world, there are\\nmeats and drinks, feasts and repasts there are", "height": "3756", "width": "2396", "jp2-path": "deathfuturestate00spen_0070.jp2"}, "71": {"fulltext": "Life in Heaven. 59\\ntables on which are spread the richest food and\\ndelicacies, by which the minds of the partakers\\nare exhilarated and recreated there are games\\nand shows there is music, vocal and instru-\\nmental and those things in the highest perfec-\\ntion. There are joys in them, and the joys are\\nfrom the happiness of love and use which is re-\\nceived from the Lord. It is this happiness of\\nlove and use that causes them to be joys, gives\\nthem their relish, and prevents them from\\nbecoming tasteless and loathsome. This happi-\\nness every one has from the use which he per-\\nforms in his calling. True Christian Reli-\\ngion/ 735.) And this same non-renunciation\\nof natural delights, but the exaltation of them\\nby subserviency to heavenly uses, is further\\nillustrated in the following\\nHave you forgotten the words of the Lord,\\nthat in heaven whosoever wishes to be great, let\\nhim become a servant Learn, then, what is\\nmeant by i kings 7 and princes/ and what by\\ni reigning with Christ that it is to be wise\\nand do uses for the kingdom of Christ, which\\nis heaven, is a kingdom of uses. For the\\nLord loves all, and thence wills good to all, and\\ngood is use and because the Lord does good or\\nuses mediately by angels, and in the world by\\nmen, therefore to those who faithfully perform", "height": "3756", "width": "2396", "jp2-path": "deathfuturestate00spen_0071.jp2"}, "72": {"fulltext": "60 Death and the Future State.\\nuses He gives the love of use, and its reward,\\nwhich is internal blessedness; and this is eternal\\nhappiness. There are in the heavens, as on\\nearth, supereminent dominions and the richest\\ntreasures for there are governments and forms\\nof government, and thus greater and less pow-\\ners and dignities and those who are in the\\nhighest stations have palaces and courts which\\nin magnificence and splendor exceed the palaces\\nand courts of emperors and kings on earth\\nBut those highest ones are chosen from those\\nwhose hearts are in the public welfare, and only\\nthe senses of their bodies are in the amplitude\\nof magnificence. Id., 736.\\ni You may suppose/ said the angel, that\\nsuch things fascinate our eyes and infatuate\\nthem, so that we should believe them to be the\\njoys of heaven but, because our hearts are not\\nin them, they are only accessory to the joys of\\nour hearts/ Id., 740.\\nThis kind of heavenly life makes every em-\\nployment, every office, every diversion or rec-\\nreation, every appetite or passion, a divine\\nservice and a means of growth. It beautifies\\nthe countenance with singleness to truth and\\nright makes the whole man transparent with\\nsincerity and integrity it makes one trust-\\nworthy in his every office and relation it\\nbroadens him beyond all creeds and convention-", "height": "3756", "width": "2396", "jp2-path": "deathfuturestate00spen_0072.jp2"}, "73": {"fulltext": "Life in Heaven. 61\\nalities, because the life of love to God and man\\nwants all truth it makes him strong, courage-\\nous heroic if need be in the right; it makes\\nhim repulsive to no one, but in spirit attractive\\nto every one, though to some he may be a\\nrebuke, or by some, who judge others by their\\nown low standards, he may be misunderstood.\\nThere is nothing gloomy in such a life, nor in\\nthe contemplation of it.\\nThe heavenly life is a life developed from\\nwithin, not a life put on. There is always\\nsomething repulsive in the life that is put on.\\nBesides it is a difficult one, because unnatural.\\nIt requires either revival effort or the motive of\\na hypocrite to sustain it. There is no such life\\nin heaven. Alas, the conventionalism and in-\\nsincerity of the world the Christian world\\nWhile I write, I am told by a teacher attend-\\ning a university summer school, that she shocked\\nthe professor and the other members of her\\nclass by saying that as a teacher of English\\nliterature in the South she had always been free\\nto express opinions of her own. And she sur-\\nprised them beyond measure by adding that\\nshe had never had any difficulty in retaining\\nher place on that account. Bless the woman or\\nman who has more to attach him to school or", "height": "3756", "width": "2396", "jp2-path": "deathfuturestate00spen_0073.jp2"}, "74": {"fulltext": "62 Death and the Future State.\\nchurch or country than the ability and willing-\\nness to reflect the sentiments of influential\\npeople\\nHad the church not repelled men by teaching\\nthe life of world-renunciation, thus making\\nChristianity an unnatural and impracticable\\nthing, but attracted them by teaching that all\\ndelights are lawful when made subservient to\\nrighteousness of life, Christian society could\\nhardly have presented so sad and awful a spec-\\ntacle of monopoly and slavery, greed and war,\\nfalseness and inhumanity, licentiousness and\\ndrunkenness, insincerity and selfishness and\\nhypocrisy, as it does at the close of the nine-\\nteenth century of the church s existence.\\nMy yoke is easy, and my burden is light.\\nMay the Lord make us all so conscious of our\\nburden of unnatural religion and life, of insin-\\ncere profession and hypocritical pretension, of\\nselfish strife and toil for the things of the body,\\nof policy instead of the truth for the sake of\\nsuccess, of fear to speak what heaven inspires,\\nof conventionalism and observances as stan-\\ndards of culture and worth so conscious of this\\nburden upon our souls, that we shall gladly\\nhear His invitation, Come unto me, all ye", "height": "3756", "width": "2396", "jp2-path": "deathfuturestate00spen_0074.jp2"}, "75": {"fulltext": "Life in Heaven. 63\\nthat labor and are heavy-laden, and I will\\ngive you rest.\\nCan we not now better conceive what kind\\nof people the angels must be Yes, people.\\nWe have been taught to think of them as a\\nsuperhuman and winged race, and principally\\nengaged in solemn adoration before a great\\nwhite throne when not executing commands\\nas ministers of divine government or doing\\nerrands of the divine mercy. Our vicarious\\natonement and our scheme of divine govern-\\nment have given even to them an unnatural\\nsainltliness and unnatural employments. But\\nthe true religion reveals them as possessed of\\nall human qualities, and as being in every re-\\nspect simply men and women, only higher in\\nthe scale of regeneration, more advanced in the\\nheavenly life and wisdom, more ail-roundly\\ndeveloped, than they were when living on earth\\nin the flesh. They laugh and weep, play and\\nwork, eat and drink, converse and sing, study\\nand discuss, grow weary and rest, sleep and\\nwake, meditate and worship, just as other good,\\nsensible, healthful and delightful men and\\nwomen do. They have no wings but thoughts,\\nno great white throne but the divine justice\\nand discernment within them. There is nobody", "height": "3756", "width": "2396", "jp2-path": "deathfuturestate00spen_0075.jp2"}, "76": {"fulltext": "64 Death and the Future State.\\nelse in heaven but just human beings and the\\nGod that dwells within them and creates thence\\na heavenly world about them, such as perfectly\\ncorresponds to their states of life. Heaven in-\\nwardly and outwardly is a heaven for every\\nhuman faculty.\\nOutwardly it must be a counterpart of our\\nown visible universe, since death does not\\nchange people into beings that can do with-\\nout a lighted firmament, a fruitful and diversi-\\nfied earth, and changes of season. And it must\\nbe a most substantial or tangible world, though\\nto us who as yet know little of the substantiality\\nof spiritual things and their creations it seems\\nas unreal as a fancy or a dream. It is hard to\\nmake a materialistic mind believe that there is\\nany reality but matter, but the spiritual mind\\nperceives with higher senses. Even in this\\nworld it deals with spiritual things, which are\\nits food and drink and create its spiritual en-\\nvironment. Through everything that is made\\nit sees something of God that is invisible to the\\nnatural mind, and thus the elements of a spir-\\nitual world corresponding to the natural. It\\nlives from spiritual motives, is guided by spir-\\nitual principles, dwells in spiritual light, and\\npossibly projects spiritual creations. When the", "height": "3756", "width": "2396", "jp2-path": "deathfuturestate00spen_0076.jp2"}, "77": {"fulltext": "Life in Heaven. 65\\nservant of Elisha, with other than natural eyes,\\nbeheld the mountain full of horses and chariots\\nof fire round about his master, it was a vision\\nof things composed of spiritual substances. It\\nwas not a fancy nor a dream, but an objected and\\ntypical illustration of the power of the doctrines\\nof love to overcome evil for chariots of fire\\nsignify doctrines of love, and the horses that\\ndrew them signify the understanding. John\\nthe Revelator, being in spirit, had many won-\\nderful visions, significant of future spiritual\\nstates of the church. But visions thus given\\nfor a lesson are not permanent creations, and\\nwe are not to base our ideas of the more per-\\nmanent heavenly appearances upon them. We\\nare not to think of golden streets and a sea\\nof glass mingled with fire as the usual sup-\\nport of the angels feet, nor of a great white\\nthrone as continually appearing in their midst.\\nThe spiritual world isexhaustless in its capacity\\nfor projecting object-lessons, but yet otherwise\\nit is a world of the most orderly creations, the\\nmore permanent of which correspond to the\\nmore permanent and general states of the in-\\nhabitants.\\nIt is a law of the spiritual world that all\\ncreations are from within the inhabitants, and\\n5", "height": "3756", "width": "2396", "jp2-path": "deathfuturestate00spen_0077.jp2"}, "78": {"fulltext": "66 Death and the Future State.\\nthat nothing outwardly appears to any one\\nunless there is that within him which cor-\\nresponds to it. A devil raised up into heaven\\nwould see no heavenly objects, nor would an\\nangel of a lower heaven if taken up into a\\nhigher. Even the spiritual sun is an objected\\nsymbol of the Divine Love and Wisdom, and\\nthus of God, in the angels. This sun is inte-\\nriorly human in its form, because Divine Love\\nand Wisdom in the angels is their divine\\nhumanity, and the source of their love and\\nlight. No angel ever sees the Lord in Person,\\nexcept thus by aspect or correspondence; nor\\ndoes one angel ever see another unless there is\\nthat in him which desires and projects him.\\nThought brings presence, and an angel may ap-\\npear in more than one place at the same time.\\nIn heaven every one is the creating medium of\\nhis own environment, and yet such is the law\\nof affinities which groups the angels into soci-\\neties of like mind and genius, that all the mem-\\nbers of a society have a common environment.\\nIndeed such is the unity of life and mind\\nthroughout heaven, that all have the same sun\\nin common, though to those in the highest or\\ninmost heaven it shines with a golden splendor,\\nwhile to those in the second heaven it has asil-", "height": "3756", "width": "2396", "jp2-path": "deathfuturestate00spen_0078.jp2"}, "79": {"fulltext": "Life in Heaven. 67\\nvery light. In every other respect, also, the\\ntwo or the three heavens are different in appear-\\nance; and each one changes in significance and\\nbeauty with the progress of the inhabitants\\ntoward the Creator. The nearer to God, the\\nricher and fuller the creation, and the more\\nglorious and youthful the person.\\nThen where is heaven Evidently it is\\nwithin its possibility is in every human soul.\\nIt is an evolution of the God principles and the\\nGod life. The laying off of the material body\\nby death does not admit to it, though to enter\\nit the most consciously this is necessary.\\nNow as to heaven s employments. Spiritual\\nemployments how can we describe or think of\\nthem It is difficult to understand how in a\\nspiritual world there can be any great diversity\\nof employment, absorbed as we are so wholly\\nand constantly in providing for the body that\\nwe can hardly think it other than idleness to read\\na book, or converse, or meditate, or give much\\ntime to the mind. The wants and uses of the\\nmind are so little known to us that it is diffi-\\ncult for us to think of spiritual food and drink,\\nor of the uses which a spirit can have for hands\\nand feet. If the benefits of what we call our\\nannihilation of time and space here on earth, by", "height": "3756", "width": "2396", "jp2-path": "deathfuturestate00spen_0079.jp2"}, "80": {"fulltext": "68 Death and the Future State.\\nour wonderful discoveries and improvements,\\nwere equitably shared by all, then in the leisure\\nso resulting, and in the exalted manhood which\\nwould bring this condition about, we might be\\nable to understand that in that perfect annihila-\\ntion of space and time which spirits enjoy in\\ncommon there is left enough for them to do.\\nWe talk of national expansion, meaning en-\\nlargement of territory and power and material\\ninterests, but the expansion we need is ex-\\npansion of soul, so that we may realize that\\nthere are higher and better employments than\\nfeeding and gratifying the body.\\nConceive, then, of a world where mental\\nactivity, prompted by divine love, communi-\\ncates its blessed uses, with or without the in-\\nstrumentality of hands. Think of the thought\\ncommunications, the spiritual food of new loves\\nrealized, the spiritual drink of new truths re-\\nvealed, the spiritual guidance and quickening\\nthat come of being with God and one s own\\nspiritual kindred and think of all this con-\\nveyed from one to another by personal presence,\\nby the speaking eye, by the fitting but undis-\\nsimulating tone of voice, by the hand filled with\\nsignificant gifts think of the needs of divine\\nand social communion, of evening rest and", "height": "3756", "width": "2396", "jp2-path": "deathfuturestate00spen_0080.jp2"}, "81": {"fulltext": "Life in Heaven. 69\\nmorning awakening; think of the reception\\nand training of newly arrived souls from\\nearth, and the ministering in unseen ways to all\\npeople on earth and even to all the poor deluded\\nsouls in hell; and think of the variety of needs\\nand of talents there must be in the myriads who\\ncompose the heavens if we think of all this,\\nwe cannot but somewhat see the truth of the\\ndoctrine that heaven has and ever must have\\nemployments in infinite variety and impor-\\ntance.\\n\u00e2\u0080\u00a2\u00e2\u0080\u00a2^^S@5^^", "height": "3756", "width": "2396", "jp2-path": "deathfuturestate00spen_0081.jp2"}, "82": {"fulltext": "CHAPTER VI.\\nLIFE IN HEAVEN {Continued).\\nDOING HEREAFTER WHAT ONE DOES HERE.\\nThe false impression has been long and per-\\nsistently abroad upon the wings of gossip,\\nthat in the writings of Swedenborg is to be\\nfound the ludicrous doctrine that a person will\\nfollow the same occupation in the next world\\nthat he follows in this. This is to be accounted\\nfor by the fact that gossip cares little for\\nthe truth, and is hardly capable of seeing the\\ntruth when it is offered. I am sure I don t\\nwant to do in the next world what I have to\\ndo here/ one of these gossip-mongers will say\\nif I am going to set type or wash dishes\\nor shovel dirt/ as the case may be, I don t\\nwant to go there.\\nMy dear friend, you will not have to do\\nanything in heaven that you do not want to do,\\nor that you do not above all things delight in\\ndoing. Think how it would be in this world\\nif all our laws were based on the Golden Rule,\\n70", "height": "3756", "width": "2396", "jp2-path": "deathfuturestate00spen_0082.jp2"}, "83": {"fulltext": "Life in Heaven. 71\\nas are heaven s laws. If conditions were such\\nhere that everyone could choose his occupation\\naccording to his particular bent and talent, and\\nreceive due compensation in that occupation, so\\nas to have leisure and means for recreation, then\\nthe idea of working in the same liue in heaven\\nwould be a delightful one. It is the necessity\\nof engaging in what is not one s chosen and\\nnatural calling, or it is the necessity of his toil-\\ning unremittingly or starving, that makes him\\nregard labor as a curse and idleness as bliss.\\nLabor in the line of one s natural liking and\\naptitude, labor delighted in for the sake of use-\\nfulness, labor with bright hope and ample\\nfruition, labor with seasonable recreation, this\\nis what man is made for, and in this his real\\nhappiness consists. The child looks forward,\\nas to the realization of a bright dream, to the\\ntime when it shall be a man or woman engaged\\nin a man or woman s work, and shall own the\\nproducts of that work as a basis of manly or\\nwomanly existence. Suppose our economic\\nconditions so favored such anticipation that it\\nshould never experience a chill or despondency,\\nthen we should have a picture of heaven on\\nearth.\\nBut we must have a still better understand-", "height": "3756", "width": "2396", "jp2-path": "deathfuturestate00spen_0083.jp2"}, "84": {"fulltext": "72 Death and the Future State.\\ning of this doing in the next world what we do\\nin this. Supposing that one is in his most de-\\nlightful and fitting occupation, such as house-\\nkeeping, cooking, sewing, type-setting, invent-\\ning or constructing machines, building, engi-\\nneering, trading, managing a railway or editing\\na newspaper, it still is not true that he will fol-\\nlow the same occupation in a spiritual world\\nthat he does in this physical world. There are\\nnot the same occupations there, but only those\\nresulting from corresponding uses. One can\\nbut very dimly discover in this world of me-\\nchanical exertion upon fixed matter what in the\\nspiritual world he will find that God has made\\nhim for. That is a world of mind and of men-\\ntal things. All its creations and works are of\\nGod through minds. There is no material\\nbody to be cared for by tilling the soil or by\\nmining or trade or manufacture. The very\\nbody is mental, including hands, feet and all\\nthe other members or organs. These but rep-\\nresent so many various mental forms, activities\\nand uses. Garments are given and renewed of\\nGod according to degree and quality of intelli-\\ngence, with or without the direct effort or the\\nconsciousness of the recipient; also houses,\\nparadises and other surroundings and so the", "height": "3756", "width": "2396", "jp2-path": "deathfuturestate00spen_0084.jp2"}, "85": {"fulltext": "Life in Heaven, 73\\nFather is recognized as the Giver and Doer of\\nall things, even when the gifts and works are\\ngiven and done by means of the hands of the\\nangels. Thus when certain ones had with ut-\\nmost zeal and exquisite skill fashioned a golden\\ncandlestick, with its lamps and flowers, to rep-\\nresent the Lord, it seemed to outward conscious-\\nness that it was their own work, but it was\\ngiven them to see that they had of themselves\\ndone nothing that it was all the Lord s work.\\nArcana Coelestia, 552.) The Divine is the\\nrecognized and infinite source for supplying\\neverything in heaven that will make every in-\\ndividual useful and happy to the extent of his\\ncapacity and there is no burden of care, no\\nanxiety for the morrow, no thought of what\\nshall we eat or wherewithal shall we be clothed,\\nfor all, like the birds, without storehouse are\\nfed, and all, like the lilies, with beauty and\\nsweetness are clothed.\\nVariety of related industrial deligkts on earth\\nbut proves variety in heaven; and one who\\nreally has on earth the occupation of his heart\\nand talent is certainly feeling after that corre-\\nsponding use which he will perform in the other\\nlife, for the individuality or genius with which\\none is born never changes eternity is but for", "height": "3756", "width": "2396", "jp2-path": "deathfuturestate00spen_0085.jp2"}, "86": {"fulltext": "74 Death and the Future State.\\nits ever more perfect exercise in its own one of\\nthe innumerable functions that unite in the\\ngrand man for the full and perfect accom-\\nplishment of God s beneficent will. How im-\\nportant it is, then, that conditions here on earth\\nin this seminary of heaven be such that\\nnone shall select an unsuitable occupation from\\nnecessity or from the hope of gain. There\\nought to be no want by which any one s pecu-\\nliar talent is kept from freest and fullest use.\\nIf education and opportunity were such in this\\nw r orld that every one could find and be sup-\\nported in that use in which he supremely de-\\nlights, what a foretaste of heaven this world\\nwould be How human genius would blossom,\\nand how various and abundant would be the\\nfruit Disease and crime and vice would dis-\\nappear, every soul would attain to divine inspi-\\nration, and all would walk with God and the\\nangels as they did in most ancient time.\\nHeaven is organized upon this principle of the\\nfitness of every man to his employment, and the\\norganization results from having the Golden\\nRule as the law of heaven, that is, from social\\njustice.\\nPerhaps w r e have not drawn this picture of\\nheavenly employments with enough body to", "height": "3756", "width": "2396", "jp2-path": "deathfuturestate00spen_0086.jp2"}, "87": {"fulltext": "Life in Heaven. 75\\nsatisfy the lover of external realities. It may\\nappear too dreamy or visionary. The visible\\nand tangible objects of heaven may seem to lack\\npermanency and reality, and the employments\\nto be too exclusively those of the higher mental\\nfaculties. When we say that sensual and selfish\\npeople cannot enter heaven, we may seem to\\nexclude all the delights of the external mind;\\nbut really only those people are excluded in\\nwhom sense and self are the ruling life. The\\ndelights of the external senses are keener in\\nheaven than on earth, and are so because of\\ntheir subordinate place and use. Commerce,\\nagriculture, manufacture, art, poetry, music,\\nand every other department of human industry\\nand recreation, are there in their own skill and\\never-increasing perfection. If angels have\\nhands, they must use them if they have stom-\\nachs they must fill them if eyes and ears and\\npalates they must delight them if love of home\\nthey must have houses and cities; if delight in\\ntravel they must have means of travel. But\\nbecause it is desire that propels them on wings\\nof thought, so that they swiftly and gently\\nglide, shall we prefer to stay on earth and be\\ndrawn by a locomotive Heaven is not lack-\\ning in resources if the one most perfect method", "height": "3756", "width": "2396", "jp2-path": "deathfuturestate00spen_0087.jp2"}, "88": {"fulltext": "76 Death and the Future State.\\n\u00c2\u00a9f travel should in any case become monotonous.\\nGarments may be made by hand or machinery\\nor given of God by interior way and so of\\nhouses and paintings and all the rest. But there\\nis the advantage that every labor is so inspired\\nby the love of its particular use, and through\\nsuch fitness of every one to his calling, and by\\nsuch ever higher and higher ideals and such\\ninflux of increasing skill, that even what the\\nhand does is acknowledged to be a work of\\nGod.\\nThere is not such permanent sameness in ex-\\nternal nature or art or industrial products in\\nheaven as there is in this world of matter,\\nbecause these externals, both natural and arti-\\nficial, change with the states of the people.\\nThe more rapid progress of the people necessi-\\ntates this, and the law that externals correspond\\nwith internals is the reason of it.\\nThat world, though spiritual, is composed of\\nsubstance spiritual substance. As the invisible\\nand intangible ether rings, whose existence can\\nbe known to the scientist only by an hypothesis\\nwhich accounts for all the properties of matter,\\nas these ether rings are the soul and creator\\nof matter, so mind or thoughts are, in a spiritual\\nworld, the soul and creator of a substantial", "height": "3756", "width": "2396", "jp2-path": "deathfuturestate00spen_0088.jp2"}, "89": {"fulltext": "Life in Heaven. 77\\nheaven and earth. The heavenly world about\\nthe angels, though changing to what is more\\nperfect and lovely as the angels change, is as\\npermanent as is the love for truth and good in\\nthe angels. Forever, Lord, thy Word is\\nestablished in the heavens. Thy faithfulness is\\nunto all generations. Thou hast established\\nthe earth and it abideth. Thy judgments abide\\nthis day; for all things are thy servants.\\n(Psa. cxix. 89-91.)\\nGOVERNMENT IN HEATEN.\\nThe government of heaven is not arbitrary\\nor artificial. It springs out of the various and\\nrelated individualities of men out of the di-\\nvine talents in men which have been improved.\\nThere is one idea underlying all life in\\nheaven that must not be overlooked the idea\\nof a Divine Humanity, from which all that is\\nreally and truly human is derived and shaped.\\nIt is this idea that makes an angel, or, what is\\nthe same, a regenerate or Godlike man. It is\\nthis idea that makes him good and true, that\\ntransfigures his face with innocence and charity,\\nthat shapes his features and form more and\\nmore into perfection of grace and beauty and\\ngoverns his conduct as a social being. And", "height": "3756", "width": "2396", "jp2-path": "deathfuturestate00spen_0089.jp2"}, "90": {"fulltext": "78 Death and the Future State.\\nwhat it does for an individual angel, it does for\\nthe collective angel called the grand man.\\nIt makes all heaven human in character and\\nform a grand human organism of brain and\\nheart and lungs and members, all mutually de-\\npendent for health and happiness and perfection\\nan organism harmonious in all its individual\\nparts. Every member loves another as himself,\\nthere is no assumption of superiority of one\\nover another, no grudging of service on the part\\nof anyone who performs an inferior function.\\nHe who in faith acknowledges and in his\\nheart worships one God is in this communion\\nof saints on earth and angels in heaven. It is\\ncalled a communion because all who compose\\nit are in one God, and have one God in them.\\nAll being as the children and posterity of one\\nfather, their minds, manners and faces so\\nresemble that they recognize one another.\\nTrue Christian Religion, 1 5.) Without this\\nbelief in and acknowledgment of a God who is\\nthe source and essence of all that is truly human\\nin man, there could be, not only no government\\nin heaven, but no heaven at all.\\nThere is government in heaven, but it is a\\ngovernment of natural law in the spiritual\\nworld. And that natural law is the soul", "height": "3756", "width": "2396", "jp2-path": "deathfuturestate00spen_0090.jp2"}, "91": {"fulltext": "Life in Heaven. 79\\naffinity by which every one finds his proper\\nplace and function. This makes harmony and\\norder. It is a government of mutual love,\\nwhich love is exercised by every one in his\\nproper and most delightful use. This love of\\nuse is supreme, and banishes all love of rule on\\nthe one hand and all envy on the other. There\\nis no occasion for pride in one of higher place,\\nno occasion for a sense of humiliation in one of\\nlower place. There are no arbitrary appoint-\\nments to office, no ambitious office-seekers.\\nYet it is said by Swedenborg, that in heaven\\nthere must be a distinct governing function\\nbecause heaven is composed of societies whose\\nmembers, though all in similar good, are not in\\nsimilar wisdom. That is, there must be a unit-\\nized or centered wisdom for the guidance of a\\nsociety as a whole. Each society must have a\\nhead for matters which pertain to its general or\\npublic concerns. But this arrangement, too, is\\norganic, or the outworking of natural law in\\nthe spiritual world, as shown by his statement\\nthat only those are exalted to governorships\\nwhose hearts are especially in the public welfare.\\nIn the celestial kingdom of heaven, says\\nSwedenborg, the government is called Justice\\nand this is because all who are in that kingdom", "height": "3756", "width": "2396", "jp2-path": "deathfuturestate00spen_0091.jp2"}, "92": {"fulltext": "80 Death and the Future State.\\nare in good as the reigning principle. The\\ngovernment there is of the Lord alone, who in-\\nwardly leads and teaches. Matters of judgment,\\nsuch as are discussed in the spiritual kingdom,\\nnever come into dispute there, but only matters\\nof justice, which pertain to life; because there\\nthe truths of judgment are inscribed upon their\\nhearts, and every one knows and perceives them.\\nUpon matters of justice, those who have wisdom\\nfrom the Lord interrogate those who have more.\\nIn the spiritual kingdom the government is\\ncalled judgment, and is administered according\\nto understood divine laws. All in this king-\\ndom are under truth as the reigning principle,\\nand their love of truth results in the good of\\nthe community. They too are led or governed\\nof the Lord, but mediately through the truth,\\nand hence through governors of a more intellec-\\ntual and formal kind than are the governors\\nin the celestial kingdom. Each society has its\\nown peculiar form of government, according to\\nits peculiar function in the grand body, but all\\nthe forms agree in the respect that they regard\\nthe public good, and thence the good of every\\nindividual, as their end. The governors lead\\nthe people in civil matters, and provide how\\nthat shall be done which is for the public good", "height": "3756", "width": "2396", "jp2-path": "deathfuturestate00spen_0092.jp2"}, "93": {"fulltext": "Life in Heaven. 81\\nthey do not command but serve the people, who\\nhave only to see the truth and the way before\\njoyfully accepting and doing. The governors\\ndo not make themselves greater than others, but\\nless for they have the good of society in the\\nfirst place, and their own in the last. They\\nhave honor and glory they dwell in the midst\\nof the societies, and in magnificent palaces; but\\nthey do not accept this honor and glory for\\nthemselves, but for the sake of the common\\nregard for what is of the Lord.\\nThere is also, in the spiritual kingdom, a\\nsimilar government, in the least form, in every\\nhousehold. There is a master or head, and\\nthere are servants; but the relation is under-\\nstood as one of mutual service and love. It is\\nagain the relation of members and organs of the\\nhuman body, though the body here is smaller.\\nHEAVENLY FREEDOM.\\nEvery one in heaven is in freedom in a\\nhigher sense than that in which we usually\\nunderstand the word. It is a freedom which is\\nfrom the Lord, and this is a truer freedom than\\nthat which is from one s self. Freedom in self-\\nlove is the freedom of disorder; but freedom in\\nlove to the Lord and fellow-man is the freedom\\n6", "height": "3756", "width": "2396", "jp2-path": "deathfuturestate00spen_0093.jp2"}, "94": {"fulltext": "82 Death and the Future State.\\nof heavenly law and order, and consequently of\\nheavenly bliss. There is on earth a desire to\\nbe free in the love and practice of evil and fal-\\nsity, but this freedom is bondage under a law\\nthat punishes for every indulgence; the true\\nfreedom is that which is attained by obedience\\nto the laws of human well-being. If the truth\\nmake you free, ye shall be free indeed. In the\\ntrue freedom every one is a center of blessedness\\nto all, and all are a center of blessedness to him\\nand one who is in this freedom must be in-\\nstantly seized with pain if he even think of that\\nwhich the sensualist or the worldly schemer\\ncalls freedom.\\nBut there is nothing in this conception of\\nheavenly freedom in heavenly order, that can\\nfavor submission to any powers that are not of\\nGod. It is the freedom of loyalty to truth and\\njustice as seen and loved, and this freedom can\\nhave nothing in common with loyalty to a\\ngovernment that is false to these principles.\\nIt must be remembered that over no heavenly\\nsociety, even in the spiritual kingdom, is a gov-\\nernor appointed or chosen who is foreign to\\nthem he is one of their own people by genius\\nand belief, his only distinction being his peculiar\\nfitness for his place, and his consequent superior", "height": "3756", "width": "2396", "jp2-path": "deathfuturestate00spen_0094.jp2"}, "95": {"fulltext": "Life in Heaven. 83\\nability to unfold the principles of a system in\\nwhich all are established in the most hearty ac-\\ncord.\\nDIVINE WORSHIP.\\nThere is also divine worship in heaven, and\\nthere are temples and preaching. The divine\\nworship, however, is not thought to consist in\\nattending church, but in a life of doing God s\\nwill in acknowledgment of Him. The preach-\\ning in the temples, wdiich is from interior light,\\nis instruction in matters pertaining to life, and\\nis according to accepted doctrines. The preach-\\ners are all from the spiritual kingdom, and\\nnone from the celestial, because in the celestial,\\nwhere the principle of good is regnant and the\\nlaw is written thence in the heart, there is no\\nneed that one say to another, Know the Lord/\\nfor all know Him, from the least to the greatest\\nof them. In the spiritual kingdom truth or\\ndoctrine is the medium of good, and must be\\ninquired after and taught. The celestials, how-\\never, do delight in hearing the spiritual preach-\\ning, because it adds something in illustration of\\ntruths they already know, and is an occasion\\nfor fuller acknowledgment and love of those\\ntruths. None in the spiritual kingdom preach\\nbut they who have the special gift of preach-", "height": "3756", "width": "2396", "jp2-path": "deathfuturestate00spen_0095.jp2"}, "96": {"fulltext": "84 Death and the Future State.\\ning, as none govern but they who are the most\\ncapable of genuine civil public service. There\\nis in heaven no such thing as mistaking one s\\ncalling. The Divine Humanity being every-\\nwhere acknowledged in heaven, and all heaven\\nbeing lovingly submissive to that Humanity, it\\nworks out its own beneficent order, its own\\npeace and harmony, its own ever ennobling and\\nfitting uses, its own end of embodying itself in\\nthe human race. This it will do also upon\\nearth when we shall have learned through\\nsuffering and enlightenment to do the Lord s\\nwill as it is done in heaven.\\nWe are told by Swedenborg that the preach-\\nings in the spiritual kingdom are according to\\ndoctrines, all of which agree in essentials. But\\nwe must not understand that this means accord-\\ning to dogma, or to a creed authoritatively es-\\ntablished. The spiritual angels are a most ques-\\ntioning and rational people, and will not one of\\nthem accept as true anything which he does not\\nrationally and clearly understand. But socie-\\nties are composed of members all alike consti-\\ntuted, and all freely and continually in similar-\\nity of views, the preacher included. All the\\nmembers are of like genius, and doctrinally\\nthis genius runs in similar lines.", "height": "3756", "width": "2396", "jp2-path": "deathfuturestate00spen_0096.jp2"}, "97": {"fulltext": "Life in Heaven. 85\\nNO TIME OR SPACE.\\nThere is no time or space in heaven. Days\\nand years are successions of inward states. Morn-\\ning and spring-time are new states of love and\\nwisdom evening and autumn are the declin-\\ning of those states. Remoteness or nearness is\\ndifference or likeness of state. By a mere\\nchange of state Swedenborg visited the heavens\\nand the spirits of other planets while he was\\nstill in vital connection with his body. They\\nare near God who are Godlike, near each other\\nwho mutually love. The speed of one s ap-\\nproach to another is his desire, and his convey-\\nance is wings of thought. In dreams we learn\\na little of how we may live through years, and\\ntravel long journeys, in a moment of time\\nmen rescued from drowning tell of the light-\\nning rapidity with which their past life is\\nunrolled as a scroll before them and when one\\nis engaged in anything unusually delightful,\\nhow the time goes by unheeded\\nONE LANGUAGE.\\nAs confusion of tongues on earth came\\nthrough impiety and wickedness, we naturally\\nexpect to find but one language in heaven. In", "height": "3756", "width": "2396", "jp2-path": "deathfuturestate00spen_0097.jp2"}, "98": {"fulltext": "86 Death and the Future State.\\nthe universal heaven, says Swedenborg, there is\\nbut one language all understand each other,\\nwhatever society they are from. But that lan-\\nguage is not learned it is inherent in every\\none. It flows out as a natural expression of\\nthe affection and thought. And the sound of\\nspeech corresponds to the affection. The deeper\\nand truer the affection to eternity, the more\\nmusical and mightily tender the voice; which\\nreminds us of that other statement of Sweden-\\nborg, that the heavenly state is one of eternal\\napproach toward the fountain of youth. Every\\naffection distributes itself into its own proper\\nform of thought, and that form of thought\\ngives forth its proper sound. One knows the\\ncharacter of another from his speech alone. It\\nis no artificial language such as we have to\\nstruggle with, from our infancy, to learn and\\nremember. It is quickly developed after en-\\ntrance into the spiritual world, for it is our\\nspirit s native tongue. It waits now in our\\ninterior intellect.\\nThe celestial angels are even more gentle and\\nsoul-touching in their expressions than are the\\nspiritual, because they are more in the fountains\\nof the life of thought and speech. Swedenborg\\nspeaks of a certain hard-hearted spirit who had", "height": "3756", "width": "2396", "jp2-path": "deathfuturestate00spen_0098.jp2"}, "99": {"fulltext": "Life in Heaven. 87\\nnever wept until an angel conversed with him.\\nThen he could not but weep, for he said it was\\nlove speaking.\\n*^mt^", "height": "3756", "width": "2396", "jp2-path": "deathfuturestate00spen_0099.jp2"}, "100": {"fulltext": "HS^r-\\nCHAPTER VII.\\nSEX AND MARRIAGE IN HEAVEN.\\nIf angels are all from the human race, if the\\nhuman male and female are different in mental\\nas well as physical constitution and function,\\nand if the mere transition from the natural to\\nthe spiritual world makes no magical change,\\nthen, of course, a man remains a man after\\ndeath and a woman remains a woman. More-\\nover, if man and woman were made for each\\nother, each to complement what the other lacks,\\nthus making of two one full mental and func-\\ntional unit, we can see no reason why all in\\nheaven should be male, or all female, or all de-\\nvoid of sex. If we could believe either of these\\nalternatives, heaven would certainly have little\\nattraction for us, offering but a dreary, barren,\\none-sided existence.\\nAnd if heaven is composed of the two sexes,\\nwhy must we not believe in sex unions in\\nheaven If there is on earth any reason for\\nbelief in a possibly perfect mating, or even if", "height": "3756", "width": "2396", "jp2-path": "deathfuturestate00spen_0100.jp2"}, "101": {"fulltext": "Sex and Marriage in Heaven. 89\\nmarriage here, as imperfect as it is in a world\\nof temporary and widely separated and crude\\nexistence, is a divine institution, then why\\nshould we not expect perfect sexual affinity,\\nnever to be broken, in heaven? If we cannot\\nso believe and expect, then we must believe\\nthat there is no such thing as forming an idea\\nof heaven from any laws with which we are\\nacquainted. He who opposes the doctrine of\\nmarriage in heaven must with as little reason\\ndeny the doctrine of any kind of angelic asso-\\nciation.\\nBut Jesus said, In the resurrection they\\nneither marry nor are given in marriage, but\\nare as angels in heaven (Matt. xxii. 30); or,\\nWhen they shall rise from the dead they\\nneither marry nor are given in marriage\\n(Mark xii. 25) or, The children of this world\\nmarry and are given in marriage but they that\\nare accounted worthy to attain to that world\\n[or age], and to the resurrection of the dead,\\nneither marry nor are given in marriage for\\nneither can they die any more for they are\\nequal to the angels, and are children of God,\\nbeing children of the resurrection. (Luke xx.\\n34-36.)\\nWhat he meant by these sayings is seen even", "height": "3756", "width": "2396", "jp2-path": "deathfuturestate00spen_0101.jp2"}, "102": {"fulltext": "90 Death and the Future State.\\nin some of the literal expressions. Ye do err,\\nDot knowing the scriptures nor the power of\\nGod/ said he to the Sadducees in reply to\\ntheir carnal question, Whose wife shall she\\nbe of the seven, for they all had her? They\\nknew neither the spiritual meaning of mar-\\nriage nor of the resurrection, but Jesus re-\\nveals this meaning of the resurrection when\\nhe says that in the resurrection they are not\\nchildren of this world, but children of God\\nand of the resurrection. This is a meaning\\nentirely above that of resurrection from the\\ngrave or even from the body. It is the resur-\\nrection of the mind and life from spiritual\\ndeath it is attainment to that state (signified\\nby u world or age in which the worthy\\nare as the angels of God. In that state of\\nspiritual regeneration there is no marrying or\\ngiving in marriage, for the union of understand-\\ning and will is then completed. And here the\\nmeaning of marriage is entirely above that of\\nthe sex union which the question of the Saddu-\\ncees conveyed. In everything, Jesus spoke to the\\nJews in a language whose meaning was hidden\\nfrom them, because their hearts were waxed\\ngross and their ears were dull of hearing. He\\nmay in like manner speak to us if our hearts", "height": "3756", "width": "2396", "jp2-path": "deathfuturestate00spen_0102.jp2"}, "103": {"fulltext": "Sex and Marriage in Heaven. 91\\nare not pure, our eyes not open, our ears not\\nin condition to hear. We become children of\\nGod, become as the angels, not by dying and\\nrising into the spiritual world, but by dying\\nunto sin and rising unto righteousness. And\\nthe question of marriage is not whose wife\\nshall she be but how shall my life be brought\\ninto perfect union and harmony with my knowl-\\nedge of right? Here is the marriage union that\\nmakes me as the angels, and in that age or\\nstate the union is completed no more marrying\\nor giving in marriage. That belongs to this\\nage or this world, or to the stage of attain-\\ning to the spiritual resurrection.\\nBut besides this marriage of will and knowl-\\nedge in every individual, by which he becomes\\nan angel, there is also the union of two souls in\\none a union foreordained from eternity in every\\ncase. Two souls are made for each other as\\nperfect counterparts, and in heaven they realize\\nthe union by a law of affinity that cannot fail\\nof its purpose. This union may not be found\\nin the present life, owing to the obstacles of\\ntime and distance in the way of meeting and\\nbecoming acquainted, and also owing to our\\ncarnal mindedness. It may in some degree be\\nrealized here, and the union be a very happy", "height": "3756", "width": "2396", "jp2-path": "deathfuturestate00spen_0103.jp2"}, "104": {"fulltext": "92 Death and the Future State.\\nand helpful one and they who live faithfully\\nand lovingly in it are, in so doing, availing\\nthemselves of one of the most helpful means of\\nbecoming angels. Swedenborg says of those\\nwomen in heaven who have died old and worn\\nout with age, and who have lived in faith in\\nthe Lord, in charity towards the neighbor and\\nin happy conjugial love with a husband, that\\nafter a succession of years they come more and\\nmore into the bloom of youth, and into a beauty\\nsurpassing every conception of beauty formed\\nfrom that which the eye has ever seen. Good-\\nness and charity mould their forms into their\\nown likeness, causing the delight and beauty\\nof charity to shine forth in every feature, so that\\nthey are the forms of charity. And the same\\nmay be said of husbands of like life and char-\\nacter. Since marriage is the most intimate pos-\\nsible relation, it cannot but affect most interiorly\\nthe character and life of those who are in it.\\nAnd either polygamy, promiscuous intercourse\\nor the desecration of marriage by mercenary\\nmotive is of all things the most destructive of\\nthe angel in a human soul.\\nThe ideal and true marriage is of all things\\nthe most sacred and beautiful. There is no\\nother relation so heavenly, so happy, so intimate", "height": "3756", "width": "2396", "jp2-path": "deathfuturestate00spen_0104.jp2"}, "105": {"fulltext": "Sex and Marriage in Heaven. 93\\nand vital. The parental and filial relation will\\ngive way to others, but the true marriage union\\nis eternal. Have r ou not read, that He who\\nmade them from the beginning made them male\\nand female, and said, For this cause shall a man\\nleave his father and mother, and shall cleave to\\nhis wife, and the twain shall become one flesh\\nWhat therefore God hath joined, let not man\\nput asunder.\\nOne of the most transcendently beautiful de-\\nscriptions of the true marriage that we have\\never seen is this one, given by Swedenborg\\nCoirjugial Love, No. 42), of a union in\\nheaven\\nOne morning I was looking up into heaven,\\nand I saw over me expanse above expanse and\\nI saw that the first expanse, which was near,\\nopened, and presently the second, which was\\nhigher, and lastly the third, which was the\\nhighest; and by illustration thence, I perceived\\nthat upon the first expanse were angels who\\ncompose the first or ultimate heaven and upon\\nthe second expanse were angels who compose\\nthe second or middle heaven and upon the\\nthird expanse were angels who compose the\\nthird or highest heaven. I wondered at first\\nwhat and why this was; and presently there\\nwas heard from heaven a voice as of a trumpet,", "height": "3756", "width": "2396", "jp2-path": "deathfuturestate00spen_0105.jp2"}, "106": {"fulltext": "94 Death and the Future State.\\nsaying, We have perceived, and now see, that\\nyou meditate concerning conjugial love; and we\\nknow that no one on earth as yet knows what\\nlove truly conjugial is in its origin and in its\\nessence, and yet it is important that this should\\nbe known wherefore it has pleased the Lord\\nto open to you the heavens, that illustrating light\\nmay flow into the interiors of your mind, and,\\ntherefrom, perception. With us in the heavens,\\nespecially in the third, our heavenly delights\\nare principally from conjugial love; wherefore,\\nfrom leave granted us, we will send down to\\nyou a pair of consorts that you may see them.\\nAnd lo instantly there appeared a chariot,\\ndescending from the highest or third heaven,\\nin which was seen one angel; but as it ap-\\nproached, there were seen therein two. The\\nchariot at a distance glittered before my eyes\\nlike a diamond, and to it were harnessed young\\nhorses white as snow and they who sat in the\\nchariot held in their hands two turtle-doves,\\nand called out to me, saying, Do you wish us\\nto come nearer? but then take heed, lest the\\nradiance which is from our heaven whence we\\nhave descended, and is flaming, penetrate too\\ninteriorly, by the influx of which the higher\\nideas of your understanding, which are in them-\\nselves heavenly, may indeed be illustrated, but\\nthese ideas are ineffable in the world wherein\\nyou are: wherefore what you are now about to\\nhear, receive rationally, and express it in a\\nmanner suited to the understanding.", "height": "3756", "width": "2396", "jp2-path": "deathfuturestate00spen_0106.jp2"}, "107": {"fulltext": "Sex and Marriage in Heaven. 95\\nAnd I replied, I will take heed; come\\nnearer: and they came, and behold! it was a\\nhusband and his wife: and they said, We are\\nconsorts; we have lived blessed in heaven from\\nthe first age, which is called by you the golden\\nage, and in the same perpetual flower of youth\\nin which you now see us at this day. I looked\\nat each attentively, because I perceived that\\nthey represented conjugial love in its life and in\\nits adornment; in its life in their faces, and in\\nits adornment in their vestures; for all angels\\nare affections of love in a human form; the\\nruling affection itself shines forth from their\\nfaces, and from the affection and according to\\nit are their garments; wherefore it is said in\\nheaven that his own affection clothes every one.\\nThe husband appeared of a middle age, between\\nmanhood and youth; from his eyes shone forth\\na light sparkling from the wisdom of love, from\\nwhich light his face was as if interiorly radiant,\\nand from this radiance the skin was throughout\\nrefulgent, whereby his whole face was one re-\\nsplendent comeliness. He was clad in a long\\nrobe, and underneath it was a vesture of blue\\ngirded about with a golden girdle, upon which\\nwere three precious stones, two sapphires on the\\nsides and a carbuncle in the midst. His stock-\\nings were of shining linen, w 7 ith threads of\\nsilver interwoven, and his shoes w r ere of silk.\\nThis was the representative form of conjugial\\nlove with the husband.\\nBut with the wife it was this her face was", "height": "3756", "width": "2396", "jp2-path": "deathfuturestate00spen_0107.jp2"}, "108": {"fulltext": "96 Death and the Future State.\\nseen by me, and was not seen it was seen as\\nbeauty itself, and it was not seen because this\\nbeauty was inexpressible; for in her face was a\\nsplendor of flaming light, such light as the\\nangels in the third heaven have, and it made\\nmy sight dim; so that I stood still with aston-\\nishment. She, observing this, addressed me,\\nsaying, What do you see? I replied, I see\\nnothing but conjugial love and the form thereof,\\nbut I see and do not see. At this she turned\\nherself obliquely from her husband, and then I\\ncould look upon her more intently: her eyes\\nwere bright with the light of her own heaven,\\nwhich, as was said, is flaming, and from the\\nlove of wisdom for in that heaven wives love\\ntheir husbands from and in their husband s\\nwisdom, and husbands love their wives from\\nand in that love towards themselves, and thus\\nthey are made one. Hence was her beauty,\\nwhich was such that no painter could emulate\\nand exhibit it in its form, for his colors have no\\nsuch luster, nor can his art express such beauty.\\nHer hair was gracefully arranged in correspon-\\ndence with her beauty, and in it were inserted\\nflowers in diadems. She had a collar of car-\\nbuncles, and from it hung a rosary of chryso-\\nlites, and her armlets were of pearl. Her upper\\nrobe wasi scarlet, and underneath it she wore a\\npurple bosom-vest, which was clasped in front\\nwith rubies. But what I wondered at was, that\\nthe colors varied according to her aspect in re-\\ngard to her husband, and also according to it", "height": "3756", "width": "2396", "jp2-path": "deathfuturestate00spen_0108.jp2"}, "109": {"fulltext": "Sex and Marriage in Heaven, 97\\nwere sometimes less, sometimes more glitter-\\ning, in mutual aspect more, and in oblique\\naspect less.\\nWhen I had seen these things, they again\\ndiscoursed with me; and when the husband\\nspoke, he spoke at the same time as if from his\\nwife; and when the wife spoke, she spoke at\\nthe same time as if from her husband. Such\\nwas the union of minds from which the speech\\nflowed. And then also I heard the tone or\\nvoice of conjugial love, which inwardly was\\nsimultaneous with, and also proceeding from,\\nthe delights of a state of peace and innocence.\\nAt length they said, We are recalled, we\\nmust go away and again they appeared to be\\nborne in a chariot, as before; and they were\\ncarried along a paved way through fields of\\nflowers, from which sprang up olives, and trees\\nladen with oranges and when they were near\\ntheir heaven, virgins came to meet them.", "height": "3756", "width": "2396", "jp2-path": "deathfuturestate00spen_0109.jp2"}, "110": {"fulltext": "CHAPTER VIII.\\nCHILDREN IN HEA VEN.\\nThough there are eternal marriage unions in\\nheaven, the husband and wife ever renewing\\ntheir youth from the Fountain of Life, yet no\\nchildren are born of those unions, but only a\\nprogeny of thought-forms and uses, and all those\\nrepresentative forms of affection and intelligence\\nwhich constitute the objects of the heavenly\\nworld. The whole heavenly universe is be-\\ngotten of conjugial love; for this love is the\\nconjunction of love and wisdom, and is the\\ncelestial principle itself. It dwells in the\\nsupreme region in the midst of all mutual love,\\nand all mutual love flows from it in creative\\npower and wisdom. A most comprehensive as\\nwell as sacred meaning, therefore, is bound up\\nin the word marriage. Marriage originates in\\nGod, who is Love and Wisdom in one, and\\ndown through all creation, from man and\\nwoman to plants that unite for reproduction,\\n98", "height": "3756", "width": "2396", "jp2-path": "deathfuturestate00spen_0110.jp2"}, "111": {"fulltext": "Children in Heaven. 99\\nand to roeks that exist by chemical affinity, it\\nis the one divine means of creation and multi-\\nplication.\\nChildren are born only in a material world.\\nSo have been all the inhabitants of the spiritual\\nworld, because without brain and nerve neither\\nconsciousness nor individuality nor spiritual or-\\nganism can be given. Within a natural body\\nthe spiritual body or voluntary and thinking\\norganism begins, and it remains a spiritual body\\nor organism after its separation therefrom at\\ndeath. The earthly existence, however short,\\nserves also, by its variety of hereditary charac-\\nteristics and tendencies and by its variety of\\nearthly contact, as a basis for that variety of\\ngenius and employment which are necessary to\\nthe happiness of the numberless societies of the\\nheavens.\\nThere are animated forms created in the\\nspiritual world, animal, plant and occasionally\\nhuman, but they are only animated forms\\nmere embodiments of inward states of the\\nangels or spirits through whom they are created\\nand they change or cease to exist with change\\nor cessation of the states which they image.\\nThe animals of the spiritual world are not\\nthere from previous earthly existence. No", "height": "3756", "width": "2396", "jp2-path": "deathfuturestate00spen_0111.jp2"}, "112": {"fulltext": "100 Death and the Future State.\\nanimals from earth enter that world, because\\ntheir souls never open to a life above the earthly\\nand temporal.\\nAll children become angels, but none without\\nthe necessary training and trials and growth.\\nThe innocence of intelligence makes angels, and\\nchildren have only the innocence of ignorance.\\nThere are no cherubs no little angels that\\ngo from earth and always remain little. All\\nangels are men and women in wisdom and\\nstature. As ignorant and undeveloped inno-\\ncents children are received into heaven at death\\nby angel mothers such women as in their earth-\\nlife loved the Lord and particularly loved chil-\\ndren. These welcome them as their own, and\\ncare for them with more than a natural mother s\\nlove and wisdom and skill. An angel mother\\nperceives the minutest particulars of a child s\\nnatural disposition, and leads and teaches it ac-\\ncordingly. By the child s delights she insinuates\\ninto it what is suited to its genius, somewhat as\\nits natural mother would provide for it the food\\nwhich was most suitable. Indeed in a spiritual\\nworld the influences and teachings of the angel\\nmother, along with the associations of children,\\nare its food and drink. It thirsts for knowledge\\nand hungers for love. The knowledge is given", "height": "3756", "width": "2396", "jp2-path": "deathfuturestate00spen_0112.jp2"}, "113": {"fulltext": "Children in Heaven. 101\\nby object-lessons, which in that world are per-\\nfect correspondences or significatives of the\\nideas to be awakened. As one instance of the\\nway children in their simple innocence are led\\nto good by things which delight them, a com-\\npany of them was seen by Swedenborg, along\\nwith their instructresses, about to enter a garden\\nwhose paths led to interior recesses. They were\\nelegantly clad with flowers around their breasts\\nand arms, the flowers resplendent with heavenly\\ncolors; and as they entered the garden the\\nflowers above the entrance shot forth a most\\njoyful radiance. Thus was taught them that\\ndivine revelation and blessing came with their\\nadvancing footsteps toward the Lord.\\nThey learn to talk, but not in our stammer-\\ning and artificial way. Their first speech is only\\na sound of affection, but as the affection develops\\nin particular directions ideas enter and flow\\nforth in varied and distinct expression. First\\nthey speak of such things as appear before their\\neyes, but eventually of the interior and heavenly\\nthings signified. When their interior minds\\nhave sufficiently opened, they are transferred to\\nmasters in the world of spirits. Here as youth\\nthey are each prepared for his destined society\\nin heaven. Thus their growth into angelhood", "height": "3756", "width": "2396", "jp2-path": "deathfuturestate00spen_0113.jp2"}, "114": {"fulltext": "102 Death and the Future State.\\nis gradual and orderly. They grow bodily as\\nthey grow spiritually. They pass through all\\nthe stages of childhood and youth, mentally and\\nbodily, until they attain to adult stature. But,\\nlike all others in heaven, they never grow old.\\nThey have their temptations, resulting from\\nhereditary tendencies. A certain prince who\\nhad died in infancy and grown up into angel-\\nhood, says Swedenborg, was tempted with the\\nfalse opinion that the good which he possessed\\nwas from himself and not from the Lord, and\\nhe had to be let into his inherited evils in order\\nto be convinced that there was no good in him-\\nself. He then saw that he had a disposition to\\ndomineer over others and to make light of adul-\\nteries. This he had to see and acknowledge\\nbefore he could be received among the angels\\nwhere he was before. Grown-up children in\\nheaven are thus at times let into the state of\\ntheir hereditary evil, not to suffer punishment\\nfor sins never actually committed, but to be con-\\nvinced that of themselves they are nothing but\\nevil, that it is the Divine alone which keeps\\nthem out of hell, that they are not in heaven\\nby any merit of their own, but of the Lord, and\\nto be cured of all boasting of their goodness\\nbefore others, which is as contrary to the prin-", "height": "3756", "width": "2396", "jp2-path": "deathfuturestate00spen_0114.jp2"}, "115": {"fulltext": "Children in Heaven. 103\\nciple and practice of mutual love as it is to\\nreligious doctrine.\\nAnd even little children have temptations to\\nresist. A choir of little children was heard by\\nSwedenborg, their voices tender but confused.\\nSome spirits about him were tempting them to\\nspeak as those spirits wished, and the children\\nwere resisting with indignation. When they\\ncould speak freely, they said, u It is not so.\\nThus they are trained not only to resist what is\\nfalse and evil, but also to speak, think and act\\nfrom no one else but the Lord.\\nWhat a valuable hint is here of the way we\\nshould train our children We should not\\nmake them repeaters of our own views, religious\\nor other, and thus mere copyists of ourselves\\nor our sect; our proper business is to unfold\\ntheir minds and open their affections to divine\\nlight, to the right principles of life and conduct,\\nand leave them to think and act for themselves\\nfrom the Lord, watching and restraining them\\nonly to the extent necessary to save them from\\nserious harm.\\nThere is also the very important suggestion,\\nthat the economic condition of society should\\nbe such that every natural mother might have\\nat hand for her children the resources and time", "height": "3756", "width": "2396", "jp2-path": "deathfuturestate00spen_0115.jp2"}, "116": {"fulltext": "104 Death and the Future State.\\nnecessary to be somewhat an angel mother to\\nthem such that all children might have homes\\nthat would be dear and sacred to them in after\\nyears such that it might be possible to educate\\nthem along the lines of their natural delights,\\nand to offer them corresponding employments.\\nChildren develop easily into angels, but this\\nis no reason why people should wish to die in\\ninfancy. Angelhood must be attained to by\\nmeans of various conditions, else there will be\\nno various places and uses in the heavens. The\\nreason why some people die in infancy and\\nothers in later life is the same as why people\\nare born at different times and in different lines\\nof descent. The time of death, like the time\\nand antecedents of birth, is an element in the\\nvariety of individuality and use which is neces-\\nsary to a heavenly world. They who die adults\\nhave acquired and carry with them from the life\\nof experience, activity, temptation and struggle\\nin the world a plane of development which the\\ninfant has not. This exterior development be-\\ncomes eventually quiescent in the other life, but\\nyet it forever remains a basis for interior men-\\ntality, giving a robustness that the angel grown\\nup in heaven from infancy can never have.\\nThe state of those who live to adult age on", "height": "3756", "width": "2396", "jp2-path": "deathfuturestate00spen_0116.jp2"}, "117": {"fulltext": "Children in Heaven, 105\\nearth may become just as perfect as that of\\ninfants who grow up in heaven, provided they\\nremove selfish and worldly loves for spiritual\\nloves but yet with a difference. Infants in\\nheaven do not even know that they were born\\nin the world, and consequently know only the\\nnew birth, which they are taught and which they\\nexperience. They know but the one Father,\\nand in their infantile innocence readily acknowl-\\nedge Him alone as their life and wisdom and\\ngoodness and delight. They have no acquired\\nand confirmed falsities or evils or self-will or\\nvanity to oppose truth or righteousness, and\\nthey need only to be let occasionally into their\\ninherited tendencies to see that they are not\\ngood of themselves but of the Lord. Their life\\nis almost a perpetual delight, and develops into\\nangelhood with comparatively little struggle.\\nFrom the innocence of ignorance they grow\\neasily and rapidly into the innocence of wisdom.\\nThey enter either the third or the second\\nheaven, according as they are celestial or spirit-\\nual in genius, the two classes being distinguished\\nin that the former act with more softness, so\\nthat scarcely anything of self is manifest to\\nobstruct the flow of divine love through them\\nto others, whilst the latter are more self-con-", "height": "3756", "width": "2396", "jp2-path": "deathfuturestate00spen_0117.jp2"}, "118": {"fulltext": "106 Death and the Future State.\\nscious and flattering in their movements and\\nmay on occasion show feelings of indignation.\\nThe former are open to the love heaven, the\\nlatter to the truth heaven. The adult may also\\nenter either of these heavens, but there will be\\nbetween him and the grown-up infant angel the\\ndifference which comes of a longer life of\\ntemptation and struggle and other mental ex-\\nperience and activity in the flesh.\\nWe might complain of these differences be-\\ntween infants and adults, and even between\\ninfants themselves, but the complaint would\\narise from ignorance of the need of variety in\\nGod s instruments for making full and sweet\\nthe harmony of the eternal world. Some\\nspirits, whether having died in infancy or adult\\nlife, must be higher than others in the sphere\\nof divine innocence, whence to act by more\\ninterior and gentle ways for the good of heaven\\nand earth and hell and others must have from\\ngenius and acquirement the benefit of a more\\nexterior plane of mind by which to act in more\\nexterior ways.", "height": "3756", "width": "2396", "jp2-path": "deathfuturestate00spen_0118.jp2"}, "119": {"fulltext": "CHAPTER IX.\\nTHE VISION OF JOSEPH.\\nWe have before us a book entitled The\\nVision of Joseph, showing the future pro-\\ngression of the spirits in prison. Its author is\\nJoseph R. Jackson, of Union City, Indiana. It\\nis a narration of his experiences, and not a\\nromance written to advance a theory or teach a\\ndoctrine. The descriptions are given in detail,\\nand evidently at first hand, and with a desire\\nfor the truth for the benefit of humanity. The\\nbook is published by The Society of Silent\\nWorship, in Washington, D. C, under date,\\nFirst month, 8th, 1898.\\nJoseph s father had visions during life, and\\nwhen he was about to die he said to Joseph,\\nIf you ever think you see me after I am gone,\\ndo not be afraid I may come to see what, you\\nare doing. God is good He will care for you.\\nHe will tell you where to go and what to do, if\\nyou will trust Him and it may be His will\\nsometimes to use me in teaching you.\\n107", "height": "3756", "width": "2396", "jp2-path": "deathfuturestate00spen_0119.jp2"}, "120": {"fulltext": "108 Death and the Future State.\\nJoseph s first remarkable vision came to him\\nwhen confined to his bed and very weak and\\nemaciated from an injury in the hip. His father\\nappeared to him one night, and gently touching\\nhis forehead and passing his hand over his face,\\ntold him that he would soon be better but that\\nhe must have his hip lanced, sleep only fifteen\\nminutes at a time, and take a certain kind of\\nrefreshment at certain intervals. The directions\\nwere followed, and he recovered.\\nHe became a soldier in our Civil War, and\\nlost many friends, among them George/ who,\\nwhen dying on the field near Vicksburg, prom-\\nised that if it should be possible from the other\\nside to help him, he would do so. Especially\\ndid he receive inspiration from a very dear\\ndeceased woman friend, a Quaker, when, in\\n1861, he had returned home from the West\\nVirginia campaign, very sick of typhoid fever.\\nShe appeared to him, telling him that it was\\nnot his time to die, for there was too much need\\nof brave and true hearts in this world.\\nDuring the last days of the war he received\\na nervous shock from the explosion of a shell,\\non account of which, in the seventies, he went\\nfor some months to a sanitarium in one of the\\ncentral States; and it was there that the most", "height": "3756", "width": "2396", "jp2-path": "deathfuturestate00spen_0120.jp2"}, "121": {"fulltext": "The Vision of Joseph: 109\\nof the visions given in the book were experi-\\nenced.\\nAt the foot of a grassy slope a river appeared,\\nand a boat, which was approaching, without\\nsound of oar, from the further side. The oars-\\nman was black as a negro, and the helmsman\\nwore the uniform of a soldier. The latter was\\nGeorge, the former the powder-monkey on\\nthe old Admiral s flag-ship. They came in\\nthat way in order to be recognized. Joseph\\nwas about to step into the boat, but was told\\nthat they had not come for him, but would take\\nF over, and then, in the spring, just before\\nthe flowers bloomed, they would come again\\nand take Mr. D Joseph would get well.\\nThese predictions proved true.\\nSoon after, the vision reappeared, and then\\nGeorge said, Perhaps you can go, to gather\\nsome information for people on earth. George\\nhad been a dozen years in the other life, busy\\nmoving about, doing good, and making progress\\nin spiritual condition. He had found that he\\ngrew by helping others, and his help had been\\ndirected to the earth-bound spirits those who\\nlinger long near the earth because too ignorant\\nor too wilfully gross in thought to move for-\\nward. We have our pastimes, he said our", "height": "3756", "width": "2396", "jp2-path": "deathfuturestate00spen_0121.jp2"}, "122": {"fulltext": "110 Death and the Future State.\\nschools, our places of training, our sanitariums\\nfor the spiritually infirm, our times of great\\ngatherings, our festivals. Most of the people\\nyou would first see appear very low down in\\nlife, and it is those who are disposed to sap the\\nlife and morals of those on earth who are open\\nto their influence.\\nJust then George saw Joseph s father beck-\\noning, and invited Joseph to step into the boat;\\nand the boat carried them over, George singing\\na song of praise to the Highest.\\nJoseph met his father, who gave him words\\nof instruction, a part of which was that the\\nHighest is found within one s inner self, and\\nis the Innermost, and that from this Highest\\nu comes the invitation that helps us on. But\\nthe father left him with another guide when\\nthey came near the first aggregate of individuals,\\nfor his services were more valuable elsewhere.\\nIt seemed to be a very low grade of people that\\nhe was come to, but all had more good than\\nthey seemed to have, and all acknowledged the\\njustness of their state. Always near were those\\nwho could help them upward, and the guide\\nsaid that the loving thought and prayer of\\nfriends on earth often encouraged them to face\\nabout and reach out for better conditions.", "height": "3756", "width": "2396", "jp2-path": "deathfuturestate00spen_0122.jp2"}, "123": {"fulltext": "11 The Vision of Joseph. Ill\\nThrough Joseph s mind passed queries, one\\nafter another, which had often arisen in regard\\nto persons of certain habits of life, and for\\nanswers there came successively such illustra-\\ntions of cases as the following.\\nA had been a man of great capabilities\\nand most affable manners, born of a long-lived\\nfamily. But he had become dissipated, and con-\\nsequently died from accident in the prime of\\nlife. He appeared upon hands and knees. He\\nseemed to carry two conditions, one slowly de-\\ncreasing, the other as slowly increasing. In\\nthe silent language of that realm, there came\\nfrom him these words\\nI should have lived to at least three score\\nand ten. By habit I destroyed my personality\\nat thirty; forty years of work and opportunity\\nfor gaining knowledge thrown away to gratify\\nan appetite! But death does not cancel earth-\\nlife s obligations and duties; so here I work out\\nin a mentally and spiritually crippled condition,\\nas you see, the unfinished work, or its equiva-\\nlent. I am growing, and am grateful every\\nhour for w r hat may seem to you a sad existence,\\nand thank the Highest that Divine Justice is\\njust, and that I am in the hands of an Infinite,\\nLoving Father, w r ho is good and doeth only\\ngood. From the teaching of my early life I", "height": "3756", "width": "2396", "jp2-path": "deathfuturestate00spen_0123.jp2"}, "124": {"fulltext": "112 Death and the Future State.\\nexpected an endless torment for one little human\\nweakness. I should joy to communicate with\\nearth-life, and to impress there the sacred uses\\nof life, and the grave responsibility one assumes\\nin forming habits that endanger life or sap the\\nlife forces. Even in my present state I am\\nhappy in the thought that Infinite Love calls\\nme on. Do you hear it? Come, come, come;\\nwhosoever will, let him come/ I am coming;\\nyes, I am coming by and by.\\nA white dove alighted on a tower near by,\\nand on its wiugs, in letters of gold, were the\\nwords, God is love.\\nSo Joseph, with his guide, resumed his\\njourney in tears, until they came to another.\\nB had been a man who was classed\\namong the most wealthy and enterprising\\ncitizens, and as a great worker in his church.\\nHe had determined in early life to be rich,\\ncreditably if he could, but by any means within\\nthe law. When butter was high, during the\\nwar, he made his children eat salted lard on\\ntheir bread, and it gave them complexions like\\ntallow candles. He soon had money to lend,\\nand by a high rate of interest and foreclosure\\nof mortgages robbed people whose distress had\\ncompelled them to borrow. By evading assess-\\nments he saved enough tax money to erect a", "height": "3756", "width": "2396", "jp2-path": "deathfuturestate00spen_0124.jp2"}, "125": {"fulltext": "The Vision of Joseph. 113\\nblock of buildings; yet when a cruelly treated\\nboy had sold him a forged note upon the boy s\\nfather to get money to flee from home, he sent\\nthe boy to state prison, and blackened his whole\\nlife. He foreclosed on a poor man s lot, and\\ntook it on his own terms. The church of which\\nhe w T as a member, then wanted the lot, and had\\nto pay him twice the cost, but he subscribed\\nhalf the price to induce other men to give to\\nthe church more than they could afford to give.\\nThe poor man who had owned the lot asked\\nhim to divide with him the profit on the sale,\\nbut being answered that division had been made\\nwith the church, said, Damn the church that\\naccepts such money, and pretends that it comes\\nin Christ s name! It was thought that he\\nwent to perdition when he died, said B\\nbut as long as I have been here, and as much\\nas the Highest has permitted me to grow, I have\\nnever been able to reach the plane where they\\ntell me that poor man and that forger boy are\\nfound.\\nOnce, on reaching home, B had met at\\nhis door a man w T hom he had hired to clean his\\ndamp cellar. The man w T as muddy all over,\\nwet to the skin, and shivering with cold. Asked\\nthe bill, he replied, One dollar. B pro-", "height": "3756", "width": "2396", "jp2-path": "deathfuturestate00spen_0125.jp2"}, "126": {"fulltext": "114 Death and the Future State.\\ntested, and then paid him fifty cents. Said the\\nmud-smeared man, If my wife and children\\ncould have a supper without this, I d throw it\\nwith curses at your feet. A few days after-\\nward the poor man died of pneumonia, not\\nhaving the means of proper treatment. The\\nfifty cents kept back went to a foreign mis-\\nsionary fund, but sent the poor home heathen\\nto the spirit-world before his time. Jack, the\\nmud-slinger, knew little of God or of God s\\nlove; but he loved, down deep in his rough\\nnature, his wife and babies, and through them\\nhe loved others, and so loved the Father. But\\nwhen I first came here, continued B\\nwith church prayers following me, I had been\\nso deaf and blind to all love, all mercy and\\njustice, in earth-life, that I found myself both\\ndeaf and blind, spiritually, here; so the call of\\nthe Highest we now hear did not reach me for\\nmany a long day. Being deprived of my body\\nand wealth, I was poor indeed utterly empty.\\nThere can be no hell of torment equal to that\\nof being without love. I thought I was dying\\nfrom want of soul sustenance, as poor Jack had\\ndied from bodily want. I had no harmony in\\nearth-life; hence could bring none over. Some\\none called me. It was Jack, the mudslinger.", "height": "3756", "width": "2396", "jp2-path": "deathfuturestate00spen_0126.jp2"}, "127": {"fulltext": "The Vision of Joseph. 115\\nHe seemed happy, and asked what he could do\\nfor me. Glancing at myself, I seemed to be\\ncovered with mud, and so poor and weak!\\nO Jack/ I cried, you can help me to every-\\nthing; I have nothing/ He replied, I can of\\nmyself do nothing; but the Highest will help.\\nCome, face the other way. Don t look toward\\nearth-life; look to the Highest/ I did so, and\\ncaught the first glint of gold on the hills, and\\nheard the call of the Highest, Come, come,\\ncome; whosoever will, let him come and par-\\ntake of the water of life freely/\\nDoes whosoever mean me, Jack? I\\nasked. And Jack answered, Yes, the Master\\ncalleth for thee/\\nSo I have been growing ever since; line\\nupon line, precept upon precept, I gather in the\\ntruth. If I had but one message to send back\\nto earth-life, it would be to those who profess\\nto follow the Master and yet serve Mammon\\ninstead of their fellow-men.\\nf i^ i", "height": "3756", "width": "2396", "jp2-path": "deathfuturestate00spen_0127.jp2"}, "128": {"fulltext": "CHAPTER X.\\nLIGHT ON THE HIDDEN WAY.\\nLight on the Hidden Way is the title of\\na book of 133 pages, published by Houghton,\\nMifflin Company, Boston, and containing an\\nintroduction from the pen of James Freeman\\nClarke.\\nMr. Clarke says of the author, whose name\\nis withheld, that she has never been in any way\\nconnected with so-called Spiritualism, nor\\nacquainted with any of the professional mediums,\\nand so has made an independent report. He\\nalso testifies that she is regarded by many\\nintelligent and cultivated men and women, who\\nare her personal friends, as sincere, truthful\\nand conscientious.\\nThe story is one of her own experience. It\\nrelates mostly to those departed ones who in\\nthe earth-life had missed their way upward, and\\nneeded encouragement and help from those still\\nin the body. It is instructive and credible, and\\nits tone and influence cannot be other than up-\\nlifting and helpful.\\n116", "height": "3756", "width": "2396", "jp2-path": "deathfuturestate00spen_0128.jp2"}, "129": {"fulltext": "Light on the Hidden Way 1 17\\nIn her own preface are these words, indi-\\ncating what the reader will find throughout the\\nbook, the nearness and mutual dependence of\\nthe people of the two worlds\\nNo longer is the dwelling of Eternal Life\\ntoo bright above, and the perishable world too\\ndark below. No more strangers and exiles, but\\nfellow-citizens with the saints, and of the house-\\nhold of God. For Thou hast made one family,\\nthere and here, one living communion of seen\\nand unseen.\\nShe had, since her earliest childhood, been a\\nseer of visions, and it was years before it oc-\\ncurred to her that every one had not the gift.\\nAs illustrating the naturalness of her experience,\\nshe says that when she was a little child she\\nonce ran after her mother (deceased when the\\nchild was a baby), thinking to overtake her.\\nThe appearance of her mother was like moon-\\nlight, and this gave her the impression that her\\nmother lived in the moon. I often wake to\\nfind her sitting by my bedside, especially when\\nI am in pain or trouble. Once she reproved\\nme for my mood, and bade me read a poem,\\ntelling me what to find it in, the page and the\\nauthor. The eyes of her father (also in the\\nother world) have seemed to be constantly upon", "height": "3756", "width": "2396", "jp2-path": "deathfuturestate00spen_0129.jp2"}, "130": {"fulltext": "118 Death and the Future State.\\nher. Once, when she was about ten years old,\\nshe had slighted her sweeping because she was\\nin haste to go out, and her father, standing on\\na rug, bade her lift up the edge of it, and then\\ncharged her to remember that no act or thought\\nis hidden, and that every slighted duty is a sin\\nagainst the ideal life.\\nGhost stories did not suggest to her mind, as\\nto others, either earthly or spirit-world people,\\nbut only the absurd idea of reanimated dead\\nbodies going about to frighten people. On a\\ndark and blustering night, having been asked\\nif she were not afraid to go home from a neigh-\\nbor s alone, she replied that she was not but\\nreally feeling timid and uncertain of her way,\\nwhen she had started, there appeared a little\\nlight beside her, and in it a baby who had gone\\nthe year before. He kept just before her till\\nshe opened the front door of her home, and then,\\nwith the sweetest smile, he was gone.\\nLater in life the child of a friend stood beside\\nher. He often visited her, though she had\\nnever seen him in his earth-life. They spoke\\nof his mother, and of the author s own baby.\\nStroking his lovely hair, she asked him for a\\ncurl to send to his mamma, and actually tried\\nto sever it with a pair of scissors. But as they", "height": "3756", "width": "2396", "jp2-path": "deathfuturestate00spen_0130.jp2"}, "131": {"fulltext": "Light on the Hidden Way. 119\\ntouched the hair, he dropped his eyes with an\\namused, quizzical smile, and laughed outright\\nat my look of dismay that the curl did not\\ncome/\\nWhen she began to realize that her experi-\\nence was unlike those about her, she learned to\\nspeak less freely of it. But there was always\\nthe inward protest, Quench not the Spirit.\\nSo her life was a struggle. I feel as if walk-\\ning with those born blind, she says, who\\ncannot comprehend the beauty of sunshine and\\nsweet faces. It was very strange to her that\\nthose who professed to believe in the immortal\\nlife, and in the Bible, where it is said that as-\\ncending and descending angels hold converse\\nwith men, should be averse to the idea of con-\\ntinual communication between the two worlds,\\nand receive with coldness and unfaith the assur-\\nance that a friend called dead is keenly alive,\\nand at times with them. One afternoon, while\\nsitting with a bereaved mother who was lament-\\ning the death of her little girl, who at the time\\nwas on her knee caressing her most tenderly, she\\nspoke of the comfort of believing that the little\\none was still with her; but the mother shrank\\nfrom the idea of a disembodied spirit, and\\nclung for comfort to a future resurrection day.", "height": "3756", "width": "2396", "jp2-path": "deathfuturestate00spen_0131.jp2"}, "132": {"fulltext": "120 Death and the Future State.\\nAsked by a correspondent if they in the other\\nlife look like ghastly shadows, she writes\\nNo. And yet their conditions are so vari-\\nous that one might as easily describe in one term\\nwhat flowers in their infinite variety of color\\nand texture look like. Some appear as if still\\nin the flesh, so that I have sometimes been\\npuzzled others appear to have become de-\\nformed, or almost animal and then there are\\nthose with shining garments, and an atmosphere\\nthat suggests cathedral music, and sunshine\\nstreaming through stained glass. As to clothes,\\nsome seem still to cling to the latest fashions,\\nwhile the more spiritual are clad in flowing\\nrobes of light of various hues and degrees of\\npurity.\\nShe had a great love for churches, and in them\\nfrequently saw double congregations. Some-\\ntimes the altar was beautifully decked with\\nflowers, and the air filled with exquisite music,\\nunseen and unheard by the worshipers; or there\\nwould be an intensely white light filling the\\nchurch, or descending upon the sincerely prayer-\\nful. Once, where the congregation was that of\\nan unpopular sect, and small, but spiritual and\\nearnest, there appeared three human forms\\nbelow the arched ceiling, bending over the\\nbowed worshipers, one a woman, and two like", "height": "3756", "width": "2396", "jp2-path": "deathfuturestate00spen_0132.jp2"}, "133": {"fulltext": "Light on the Hidden Way. 121\\nthe old patriarchs. Then a more radiant form\\njoined them, paused, and looked upward in ex-\\npectation. The white light grew more brilliant,\\nand then a shining one came, with such over-\\npowering glory that the expectant form raised\\nhis hand as if to veil his face. The tableau\\nremained thus, the ineffable light streaming over\\nthe congregation, until the close of the prayer.\\nAt a funeral she would see the departed one\\nbeside the mourners, and wonder that their grief\\nseemed to prevent their seeing him. When the\\ncasket was lowered, the vault seemed full of\\nlight and flowers.\\nShe describes her gift as entirely independent\\nof the physical senses. Darkness and sunlight,\\nthe roar of the city streets and the stillness of\\nher chamber, are alike immaterial conditions.\\nNor is it only the departed. Often where I\\nhave felt indifference or even prejudice in those\\nI meet in the flesh, I have been touched and\\nrebuked by the unexpected loveliness of the\\ninner man or woman; and I have felt as often\\nshocked to find others dark and repulsive whom\\nI should like to respect.\\nShe had her varying states of joy and des-\\npondency, peace and trouble. One evening,\\nafter playing Coronation on the piano, she", "height": "3756", "width": "2396", "jp2-path": "deathfuturestate00spen_0133.jp2"}, "134": {"fulltext": "122 Death and the Future State.\\nwas^ enjoying the sunset from the bay-window,\\nand was unusually bright and peaceful. Then\\nher father stood beside her, saying that her hap-\\npiness was merely a result of a calm and restful\\nday that she had been good only as she had\\nbeen in her sleep the night before. Should the\\nnext day be one of trial, would he find her con-\\nquered or conqueror, troubled or at peace?\\nThere was a deeper peace than that which came\\nfrom the absence of temptation. It was only\\nthrough self-denial, discouragement, discipline\\nand trial that she could attain to the higher life.\\nSpiritual powers were developed by exercise and\\nuse. There was no virtue in being patient if\\npatience was never tried, or in being cheerful if\\nthere was no temptation to be gloomy. She\\nwould fail sometimes, but should see to it that\\nshe rose from every fall with a renewed spirit\\nand stronger will, determined to win a blessing\\nfrom every foe. There was no legacy like the\\nexample of a holy life.\\nAt another time a venerable man, beautiful\\nin presence, came, and reminded her of the sub-\\ntle and far reaching influence of a life, and said\\nthat her judgment would be to meet her own\\nfailures and the influence of the same upon\\nthose about her, the effects, perhaps, in some\\ncases, having to be faced for generations.", "height": "3756", "width": "2396", "jp2-path": "deathfuturestate00spen_0134.jp2"}, "135": {"fulltext": "Light on the Hidden Way. 123\\nMany were the wholesome and beautiful les-\\nsons she thus received.\\nHer father told her that the so-called Spirit-\\nualist has no conception of spirituality. Instead\\nof spiritualizing the present, he materializes the\\nfuture, placing it upon his level instead of rever-\\nently striving to rise to ours. There is also a\\nloss of the sense of the Divine Presence the\\nhighest and purest communion. He is apt to\\nbe less conscientious than those who feel less\\nassurance, and utterly fails to realize the respon-\\nsibility of life. The true Spiritualist is\\none whose life is sanctified by the Spirit, a\\nperpetual consecration. You have Jesus for\\nyour Ideal. He said, 1 1 sanctify myself/\\nAfter his death, when his disciples were assem-\\nbled at the familiar meal, so fraught with tender\\nassociations, he appeared in their midst, not to\\nhold a seance, to lift a table, or tell them of the\\nlife to come, but simply to impress his teach-\\nings upon them and fill their lives with peace;\\nto breathe upon them his holy spirit and charge\\nthem to be faithful to the light they had received.\\nNor do you find them waiting in the dark for\\nhim to come again, but working, through trial\\nand persecution, to advance the coming of his\\nkingdom. This is the only true Spiritualism.", "height": "3756", "width": "2396", "jp2-path": "deathfuturestate00spen_0135.jp2"}, "136": {"fulltext": "124 Death and the Future State.\\nAfter losing her own little child, the waters\\nof her soul were so ruffled for a season as sel-\\ndom to reflect her heavenly lights. She began\\nto doubt the reality of her visions and even the\\nfact of a future life. Has all been hallucina-\\ntion The universe, with its evils, and with its\\ninnocent ones suffering for its guilty, seemed\\nmore a vast pitiless machine than a creation for\\nworking out the beneficent will of Divine Provi-\\ndence. Worship became impossible. But her\\nfather was sometimes with her still, and reasoned\\nwith her against descending into a hell of despair\\nand misery. She must return to her sunny faith\\nand develop her gift in usefulness to others.\\nOnce, when he told her that spiritual things are\\nspiritually discerned, and could never be demon-\\nstrated to her satisfaction except through an act\\nof faith, she replied, Tell me where and how\\nyou live, and what your homes are like. Could\\nI understand the laws and conditions of your\\nlife growth, it might be easier to believe.\\nThen, with a tender and half-amused smile, he\\nsaid You could not understand me if I told\\nyou. As you develop your spiritual nature and\\ncome up into this high school, you will find it\\ngradually unfolding to your understanding.\\nWe do not come to tell you startling facts or to\\nrelieve you of your responsibilities.", "height": "3756", "width": "2396", "jp2-path": "deathfuturestate00spen_0136.jp2"}, "137": {"fulltext": "Light on the Hidden Way. 125\\nAfter reading about half the book, the reader\\nwill see that the deep, dark trials through which\\nshe passed, and the lessons which she received,\\nwere such as to fit her for what became her chief\\nmission in subsequent life that of helping\\nearth-bound spirits.\\nThe author passes through her last dark trial\\nof doubt and questioning.\\nResting on a sofa, she felt that everything\\nwas drifting away from her, and became con-\\nscious of only cold and darkness. Glimpses of\\nlight came, then distinguishable forms, each\\nclothed in white light. She alone was sur-\\nrounded by darkness. Recognizing her father,\\nshe asked if she were dying. Not replying\\ndirectly, he told her that the light which sur-\\nrounded and pervaded all the forms she beheld\\nwas the divine grace which persistently she was\\nshutting out of her life, because she could not\\nexplain satisfactorily to herself the peculiar\\nconditions of her special temperament.\\nThen she was made to see her little room in\\nher childhood home, and the kneeling form of\\nher girl-self surrounded with a lovely light, in\\nwhich was a face full of sweetness, trust and", "height": "3756", "width": "2396", "jp2-path": "deathfuturestate00spen_0137.jp2"}, "138": {"fulltext": "126 Death and the Future State.\\npeace. See what we hoped you might be-\\ncome! were the words she heard. Then a far\\nmore radiant form appeared, with extended\\nhands that seemed to be drawing all men and\\nwomen from a depth of darkness below into\\nthe clear light of heaven, their faces turned to\\nhers, and growing peaceful and satisfied as they\\nadvanced. And he said to her, Look well at\\nthis picture. Shall it be the prophecy of your\\nfuture, or the warning of a lost opportunity?\\nLight is given you; but you cling to darkness,\\nand are wilfully deaf and dumb.\\nAgain she asked how she could be sure that\\nit was not a freak of morbid imagination or\\nsome brain disturbance; and immediately dark-\\nness and cold returned, and she began to wonder\\nif she were really dead and cast into outer dark-\\nness. After a long time there was a flickering\\nand faint light, appearing and disappearing as\\nif struggling to penetrate her darkness. It\\nwas the light she had seen about her baby.\\nThen, melted in an agony of remorse, she sank\\nupon her knees, all resistance gone. The dark-\\nness passed, and her father was in view, holding\\nher darling in his arms. He counseled her to\\npray against doubt, to begin now the eternal\\nlife of trustful consecration and sanctified ser-", "height": "3756", "width": "2396", "jp2-path": "deathfuturestate00spen_0138.jp2"}, "139": {"fulltext": "Light on the Hidden Way: 127\\nvice, consciously drawing her innermost life\\nfrom God. He impressed upon her the inesti-\\nmable value of her gift, the importance of using\\nit, and the necessity of her own soul s illumina-\\ntion before she could help others. This was her\\neffective call.\\nOf the following eight years of her life no\\nreport is made in her book. But in passing a\\ncertain house, during the ninth year, she met\\nalmost daily its former owner, still lingering\\nabout the premises. He had been a physician,\\nand very popular on account of his social quali-\\nties. She had known him slightly while he\\nlived in the body. Earth-bound souls may\\nmake themselves very disagreeable if allowed a\\nrecognition, and he was always watching for\\nher coming. She felt so much annoyed as some-\\ntimes to go out of her way to avoid him. But\\nknowing him to have been exceedingly courteous\\nin his earth-life, she felt that he was incapable\\nof intentionally giving annoyance, and she recog-\\nnized him. This seems to have been the begin-\\nning of her work among these mistaught and\\nerring ones.\\nHe had been seeking her interest and sym-\\npathy, but would not intrude himself upon her,\\nthough he knew all along that she had seen him.", "height": "3756", "width": "2396", "jp2-path": "deathfuturestate00spen_0139.jp2"}, "140": {"fulltext": "128 Death and the Future State.\\nHe was lonely and miserable; had companion-\\nship but did not care for it; preferred to roam\\nabout his old home and to live in its associa-\\ntions, though he was pained because his wife\\nknew not of his presence but thought of him as\\nhappy in a far-off heaven.\\nOur author urged him to leave the earth\\natmosphere and rise into a higher life, where the\\nstimulus of work is even more urgent than here.\\nHe could not see what there was for a doctor\\nto do there, where there were no frail or dis-\\neased bodies. He was waiting for the judg-\\nment-day, to know whether he should be among\\nthe lost or saved. He had been a church-goer\\nfrom habit and a sense of propriety, but had\\nenjoyed society and the abundance of good\\nthings he had, and had never thought seriously\\nof religious matters, though he had died pro-\\nfessing faith in the Redeemer. Now things\\nseemed turned upside down. Some whom he\\nhad thought unbelievers were so radiant with\\nspiritual light that he could not endure their\\npresence, and many good church-members were\\nquite the opposite.\\nLittle impression was made upon him at first,\\nthough our author tried to make him under-\\nstand that all days are judgment-days, that he", "height": "3756", "width": "2396", "jp2-path": "deathfuturestate00spen_0140.jp2"}, "141": {"fulltext": "Light on the Hidden Way. 129\\nneed not wait, that the dwarfing of his spiritual\\nnature by living for the physical life alone was\\nhis present judgment, that we are saved by holy\\nlives and not by vicarious atonement, that the\\nChrist and his Christlike disciples are living and\\nat work increasing the kingdom of righteous-\\nness, and that though he could no longer heal\\nsick bodies he could work to save souls.\\nHe was offended was not intended to be a\\nminister.\\nHe never walked beyond the limits of his\\nown grounds, but became each day more eager\\nto see and converse with our author. She tried\\nto get him to accompany her to church, but\\nwithout avail. She spoke of the sermon and\\nmusic as likely to help him. Then she invited\\nhim to an evening reading-circle at her home.\\nHe would not promise, though there were signs\\nof his yielding. He did come entered gloomily\\ninto the room and took a seat beside her. No\\nspecial welcome or notice was extended to him,\\nfor he was greatly depressed, but the singing\\nand reading went on. Before leaving, he was\\nmoved to thank her for the privilege of atten-\\ndance, saying that he had not liked hymns or\\nsermons but was just beginning to understand\\nwhat was meant by spiritual food.\\n9", "height": "3756", "width": "2396", "jp2-path": "deathfuturestate00spen_0141.jp2"}, "142": {"fulltext": "130 Death and the Future State.\\nNext afternoon he ventured off the premises\\nto meet her, and she tried to induce him not to\\ngo back to them. He would not promise, but\\nwanted to attend another of the reading meet-\\nings. Selections were made at next meeting to\\nsuit his mood and need, and Whittier s An-\\nswer w was the last read. He was deeply stirred,\\nand seemed to have made some strong resolve.\\nTwo days intervened, and he came again to the\\nreading, evidently trying to spare his helper the\\nknowledge of what he was suffering. It requires\\ngreat force of will to leave the earth atmosphere,\\nwith its old associations, and the presence of\\nbright spiritual things is unendurable. The life\\nlies all uncovered in the light, though it is only\\nby the purifying touch of that light that the soil\\nand stain can be removed. But freedom of will\\nremains ever inviolable, and help and forgive-\\nness are heaven s free gifts.\\nHe came every night to the reading-circle,\\nand also for a half hour in the morning.\\nOne morning his helper was early in her\\nplace at the church, as she had been directed.\\nIn that unveiled church of which we have\\nspoken, she beheld the service going on. The\\nspeaker, after the discourse, stood in the chancel\\nwaiting, while the congregation remained kneel-", "height": "3756", "width": "2396", "jp2-path": "deathfuturestate00spen_0142.jp2"}, "143": {"fulltext": "Light on the Hidden Way. 131\\ning, with bowed heads. Then came the doctor\\nreverently down the aisle, kneeled before the\\nradiant preacher, received his blessing, then\\nlooked upward with an indescribable expres-\\nsion of strength and peace. Then there was\\nchanting by the heavenly choir, and the doctor\\narose clad in a new robe of righteousness, his\\nface full of peace and victory.\\nSo she had helped one through.\\n^*3@**^", "height": "3756", "width": "2396", "jp2-path": "deathfuturestate00spen_0143.jp2"}, "144": {"fulltext": "-\u00c2\u00ab^=\u00e2\u0082\u00acP\\n10^ h\\nAPPENDIX.\\nAPPEARANCE OF THE SPIRITUAL\\nWORLD.\\nThe spiritual world in its external appear-\\nance is altogether similar to the natural world.\\nLand, mountains, hills, valleys, plains, fields,\\nlakes, rivers and springs, and so all things be-\\nlonging to the mineral kingdom, appear there\\nas in the natural world. Also paradises, gar-\\ndens, groves and forests containing trees and\\nshrubs of every kind, with their fruits and\\nseeds besides plants, flowers, herbs and\\ngrasses; and therefore all that belongs to the\\nvegetable kingdom. Animals appear there also,\\nand birds and fishes, of every kind therefore\\nall that belongs to the animal kingdom. Man\\nis there an angel or a spirit.\\nThis is premised that it may be known that\\nthe universe of the spiritual world is precisely\\nlike that of the natural, with this only differ-\\n132", "height": "3756", "width": "2396", "jp2-path": "deathfuturestate00spen_0144.jp2"}, "145": {"fulltext": "Appendix. 133\\nence: that its objects are not fixed and limited\\nas in the natural world for there is nothing\\nnatural there, but all is spiritual.\\nThat the universe of that world presents an\\nimage of man, will be very evident from the\\nfact that all the objects just mentioned appear\\nthere to the life, and exist about an angel and\\nthe angelic societies as if produced or created\\nfrom them. They do not pass away, but are\\nabout them permanently. That they are as if\\nproduced or created from them, is shown by\\ntheir disappearance when an angel goes away,\\nor a society changes its place; and by the\\nchanged aspect of everything around other\\nangels who take their place. Then the para-\\ndises change their trees and fruits, blooming\\nthings their flowers and seeds, the fields their\\nherbs and grasses and the species of animals\\nand birds are changed.\\nSuch things exist and are so changed, be-\\ncause they exist according to the affections and\\nconsequent thoughts of the angels; for they\\nare correspondences, and things correspondent\\nmake one with him to whom they correspond.\\nTherefore they are his representative image.\\nThe image itself is not seen when the things are\\nviewed in their forms, but it is when they are", "height": "3756", "width": "2396", "jp2-path": "deathfuturestate00spen_0145.jp2"}, "146": {"fulltext": "134 Appendix.\\nviewed in their uses. I was permitted to see\\nthat the angels, when their eyes were opened by\\nthe Lord and they saw those objects from the\\ncorrespondence of uses, acknowledged and saw\\nthemselves in them. Swedenborg, in Divine\\nLove and Wisdom, Nos. 321, 322.\\nV31", "height": "3756", "width": "2396", "jp2-path": "deathfuturestate00spen_0146.jp2"}, "147": {"fulltext": "The Bible Student s Series\\nUPON\\nXTbe Worb\\nAND\\n1Fts Unspiration\\nIN THREE VOLUMES\\n$1.00 each (no extra charge by mail)\\nSent free to any Minister of the Gospel on receipt of ten\\ncents for each volume (either in money\\nor postage stamps) by\\nThe Connecticut New Church association,\\nNew Haven, Conn.\\nSWEDENBORG PUBLISHING ASSOCIATION\\nGERMANTOWN, PA.\\nSee Contents of Volume III on next page", "height": "3756", "width": "2396", "jp2-path": "deathfuturestate00spen_0147.jp2"}, "148": {"fulltext": "CONTENTS OF VOLUME 111.\\nI. Introduction The Reasonableness of expecting an Improved\\nKnowledge of the Scriptures, and a Clearer Perception of the Religion\\nwhich they inculcate, 1. II. The Origin of the Idea of God s Existence\\nthe Universality of its Acknowledgment, and the Means for its Per-\\npetuation, 25. III. The Soul of Man a Spiritual Body in the Human\\nForm, gifted with Immortality, 47. IV. Revelation in all Ages Its\\nCharacteristics before the Mosaic Period, and the Letter of the Scrip-\\ntures its Final Basis, 77. Y. The Law of Scripture Writing, and in\\nwhat consists its Revelation and Inspiration, 102. VI. Genuine and\\nApparent Truths in the Bible Specifically those which refer to the\\nDivine Character, 133. VII. God s Manifestations to Men, considered\\nas Evidence that He is a Divine Person, 164. VIII. Visions and\\nDreams considered as Media through which Divine Revelations have\\nbeen made, 198. IX. Miracles Their Occasion and Design, 238. X.\\nParables considered as Open Evidence that the Scriptures have an\\nInner Sense, 303. XI. History viewed as a Representation of Divine\\nand Spiritual Things, 339. XII. Prophecy Its Fulfilment to be\\nsought for in the Internal States of the Church, rather than in the\\nExternal Circumstances of the World, 375. XIII. The World of\\nSpirits a Region between Heaven and Hell The First Receptacle for\\nthe Souls of the Deceased, and the Scene of Judgment, 412. XIV.\\nHeaven and Hell Interior States of the Human Soul, induced by the Re\\nception or Rejection of the Divine Principles of Love and Wisdom, 443.\\nSent free to any Minister of the Gospel on receipt of ten cents (either\\nin money or postage stamps) by THE CONNECTICUT NEW CHURCH\\nASSOCIATION, New Haven, Conn.\\nSWEDENBORG PUBLISHING ASSOCIATION,\\nGERMANTOWN, PA.", "height": "3756", "width": "2475", "jp2-path": "deathfuturestate00spen_0148.jp2"}, "149": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3756", "width": "2396", "jp2-path": "deathfuturestate00spen_0149.jp2"}, "150": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3756", "width": "2396", "jp2-path": "deathfuturestate00spen_0150.jp2"}, "151": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3756", "width": "2396", "jp2-path": "deathfuturestate00spen_0151.jp2"}, "152": {"fulltext": "NOV 20 1900\\nDeacidified using the Bookkeeper process\\nNeutralizing agent: Magnesium Oxide\\nTreatment Date: May 2006\\nPreservationTechnologies\\nA WORLD LEADER IN PAPER PRESERVATION\\n1 1 1 Thomson Park Drive\\nCranberry Township. 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