Heaven and Hell - Swedenborg Foundation

HEAVEN AND HELL 256
They said they had been there for many centuries, and that
they are sometimes taken out that they may serve others for
certain uses of a low order. From this I was led to think about
many Christians—who are inwardly though not outwardly
idolaters, since they are worshipers of self and of the world, and
in heart deny the Lord—what lot awaits such in the other life.
328. That the church of the Lord is spread over all the globe,
and is thus universal; and that all those are in it who have lived
in the good of charity in accordance with their religion; and
that the church, where the Word is and by means of it the
Lord is known, is in relation to those who are out of the
church like the heart and lungs in man, from which all the
viscera and members of the body have their life, variously
according to their forms, positions, and conjunctions, may be
seen above (n. 308).