Heaven and Hell - Swedenborg Foundation

HEAVEN AND HELL 507
In reformation compulsion is harmful (n. 4031).
All worship from freedom is worship, but worship from compulsion is not
worship (n. 1947, 2880, 7349, 10097).
Repentance must be effected in a free state, and repentance effected in a
state of compulsion is of no avail (n. 8392).
States of compulsion, what they are (n. 8392).
[3] It is granted to man to act from the freedom of reason, to the end that
good may be provided for him, and this is why man has the freedom to think
and will even what is evil, and to do it so far as the laws do not forbid (n.
10777).
Man is kept by the Lord between heaven and hell, and thus in equilibrium,
that he may be in freedom for the sake of reformation (n. 5982, 6477, 8209,
8987).
What is implanted in freedom endures, but not what is implanted under
compulsion (n. 9588).
For this reason no one is ever deprived of his freedom (n. 2876, 2881).
The Lord compels no one (n. 1937, 1947).
Compelling oneself is from freedom, but not being compelled (n. 1937,
1947).
A man ought to compel himself to resist evil (n. 1937, 1947, 7914).
Also to do good as if from himself, and yet to acknowledge that it is from
the Lord (n. 2883, 2891, 2892, 7914).
Man has a stronger freedom in the temptation combats in which he
conquers, since he then compels himself more interiorly to resist, although it
appears otherwise (n. 1937, 1947, 2881).
[4] Infernal freedom consists in being led by the loves of self and of the
world and their lusts (n. 2870, 2873).
Those who are in hell know no other freedom (n. 2871).
Heavenly freedom is as far removed from infernal freedom as heaven is
from hell (n. 2873, 2874).