Afterlife: A Guided Tour of Heaven and Its Wonders - Swedenborg ...

Heaven
thor oughly miserable; and once all their delight therefore
dies away, they are very soon disgusted and nauseated.
Almost all the people who arrive in the other life think
that hell is the same for everyone and that heaven is the
same for everyone, when in fact there are infinite varia -
tions and differences in each. Hell is never the same for
any two people, nor is heaven. In the same way, no one of
us, no spirit, and no angel is ever exactly like any other,
even facially. When I even thought about two identical or
equal beings, the angels were aghast. They said that every
unity is formed by a harmonious agreement of many con -
stituents and that the nature of the unity depends on the
nature of the agreement. This is how every community of
heaven forms a unity and how all the communities form a
single heaven, which is accomplished solely by the Lord,
by means of love.
Useful activities in the heavens occur in similar variety
and diversity. The function of one individual is never
exactly the same as that of any other, so the delight of one
is never the same as another’s. Not only that, the delights
of each function are countless, and these countless
delights are equally varied, yet they are united in a design
that enables them to focus on each other as do the func -
tions of the individual members and organs and viscera in
the human body; or even more, like the functions of every
vessel and fiber in those members and organs and viscera.
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