Heaven and Hell - Swedenborg Foundation

HEAVEN AND HELL 394
are in heavenly love, the more interiorly and deeply they enter
into the light of heaven, see all things more clearly and all
things appear more beautiful to them, and they perceive truths
more intelligently and wisely.
[5] Again, it is impossible for those who are in corporeal love
to live at all in the heat of heaven, for the heat of heaven is
heavenly love; but they can live in the heat of hell, which is the
love of raging against others that do not favor them. The
delights of that love are contempt of others, en mity, hatred,
and revenge; and when they are in these delights they are in
their life, and have no idea what it is to do good to others from
good itself and for the sake of good itself, knowing only what it
is to do good from evil and for the sake of evil.
[6] Those who are in corporeal love are unable to breathe in
heaven. When any evil spirit is brought into heaven he draws
his breath like one struggling in a contest; while those that are
in heavenly love have a freer respiration and a fuller life the
more interiorly they are in heaven. All this shows that heaven
with man is heavenly and spiritual love, because on that love all
things of heaven are inscribed; also that hell in man is corporeal
and worldly love apart from heavenly and spiritual love,
because on such loves all things of hell are inscribed. Evidently,
then, he whose love is heavenly and spiritual enters heaven, and
he whose love is corporeal and worldly apart from heavenly
and spiritual love enters hell.
482. (4) Unless faith is from heavenly love it does not endure in
man. This has been made clear to me by so much experience
that if everything I have seen and heard respecting it were
collected, it would fill a volume. This I can testify, that those
who are in corporeal and worldly love apart from heavenly and
spiritual love have no faith whatever, and are incapable of
having any; they have nothing but knowledge or a persuasion
that a thing is true because it serves their love. Some of those
who claimed that they had faith were brought to those who
had faith, and when they communicated with them they