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Heaven and Hell Are from the Human race
p.240:
They wish for this reason that I should declare from their
lips that in the entire heaven there is not a single angel who was
created such from the beginning, nor in hell any devil who was
created an angel of light and cast down; but that all, both in
heaven and in hell, are from the human race; in heaven those
who lived in the world in heavenly love and belief, in hell those
who lived in infernal love and belief, also that it is hell taken as
a whole that is called the devil and satan—the name devil
being given to the hell that is behind, where those are that are
called evil genii, and the name satan being given to the hellthat is in front, where those are that are called evil spirits.213
The character of these hells will be described in the following
pages.
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The angels said that the Christian world had gathered
such a belief about those in heaven and those in hell from some
passages in the Word understood according to the mere sense
of the letter not illustrated and explained by genuine doctrine
from the Word; yet the sense of the letter of the Word until
illuminated by genuine doctrine, draws the mind in different
directions, and this begets ignorance, heresies, and errors.214
312.
The man of the church also derives this belief from his
believing that no man comes into heaven or into hell until the
time of the final judgment; and about that he has accepted the
opinion that all visible things will perish at that time and new
things will come into existence, and that the soul will then
return into its body, and from that union man will again live as
a man. This belief involves the other—that angels were created
such from the beginning; for it is impossible to believe that
heaven and hell are from the human race when it is believed
that no man can go there until the end of the world.。。。