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Least of all can anyone ascend from hell into heaven, for if he makes the attempt he pants like one in the agony of death, or like a fish taken out of water into the air. No one therefore is able to enter from one Society into a more distant one, neither can anyone descend from a higher into a lower heaven, or ascend from a lower into a higher, because the heart then labors and the lungs are oppressed. Neither does 'all for each and each, for all' mean equality in rank and class.īecause the whole heaven is distinguished into Societies according to the affections which are of love and because all wisdom and intelligence is according to those affections, therefore each Society has a peculiar respiration distinct from the respiration of another Society, and similarly a peculiar and distinct heartbeat. 543) Yet in spite of all this, evil spirits enjoy and have delight in their dire environment, 'and the delight of evil, perceived as good, is hell.' (D. 581.) 'The fear of punishment is the only means of restraining the violence and fury of those who are in the hells.

'The reason why the Lord permits torments in the hells is that evils cannot otherwise be restrained and subdued.' (H. 574), alluding to the experiences of a newcomer into the abodes of evil and falsity. 762.) While in this world slavery has among so-called civilized nations been abolished, it is not so in the next world, for we are told: 'After infestations they afflict him with cruel punishment until he is reduced to a state of slavery,' (H. 268), yet the degree of perception and reception of these goods entirely depends on personal character, which differs in each individual angel, whereas in the hells where the love of self reigns supreme, 'to everyone is done that which he would do to another.' (A. 'All for each and each for all' is an altruism dangerously misunderstood and misinterpreted, for although 'Heaven is a communion of goods,' (H.

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The world of spirits is so full of subtle wickedness that it may be compared to a pool of water replete with the spawn of frogs. Of course our future life entirely depends upon our life in this world.Įvery man after death enters into the world of spirits and takes away with him altogether the same nature that he had in the natural world. when the heat of heaven breathed upon them, began to be tormented in a direful manner wherefore they cast themselves downwards, swearing that to enter heaven, unless they were in the light and heat of heaven, was to them hell.

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As each spirit is free to choose his associates and place of abode, the law of like to like is there universal.Ĭertain spirits. Thus 'all for each and each for all' is certainly not applicable to the inhabitants of the spiritual world, for what is heaven to some is as it were hell to others and vice versa. 182.) In fact, their whole environment is inexpressibly foul and disgusting. they appear indeed clothed with garments, but such as are ragged, squalid and filthy, each according to his insanity nor can they wear any others.' (H.

In awful contrast to the surpassing magnificence and exquisite luxury of so many heavenly societies, we are told that 'in the hells.

Imagination cannot possibly grasp the transcendent glory of the one and the horrific depths of degradation and wickedness of the other. Between the life of the myriads of angels in the Heavens and the comparatively living death of the myriads of inhabitants in the Hells, the differences are so appalling that earth contains nothing approaching to it in fact, the most vivid The inequalities of social life in this world are a favorite theme with social reformers, who, more often than not, bitterly inveigh against such an unjust, unchristian, and unnatural state of things, and suggest the most drastic and revolutionary reforms in order to equalize the possession of the so-called 'good things' of this world among the 'People.' But few-some even among New Church people-appear to realize that far greater are the inequalities of social life in the world to come, as revealed in Swedenborg's works. SOME ASPECTS OF SOCIOLOGY IN THE SPIRITUAL AND THE NATURAL WORLD 1916 SOME ASPECTS OF SOCIOLOGY IN THE SPIRITUAL AND THE NATURAL WORLD I.

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