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evil because it is against Him, has a place in heaven; for heaven in the complex resembles one man, whose life or soul is the Lord. In that celestial man there are all things which are in a natural man; with the difference which exists between things celestial and natural.

It is well known that in man there are not only organized forms consisting of blood-vessels and nervous fibres which are called viscera, but also skins, membranes, tendons, cartilages, bones, nails and teeth which have life in a less degree than the organized forms themselves, to which they serve as ligaments, teguments and supports. That celestial man which is heaven, in order that there may be all these parts in him, cannot be composed of men who are all of one religion, but of men of different religions. Hence all who apply to their lives these two universals of the church, have a place in that celestial man, that is, in heaven, and there enjoy felicity, each in his degree. (D. P. 325, '6.)

HEAVEN FROM ALL PEOPLES.

There are [in the spiritual world] societies of interior friendship ... who were such in the life of the body, that they cordially loved those who were within their common association, and also embraced them as united in brotherhood. They believed that themselves alone were alive and in the light, and that they who were out of their society were respectively not alive and not in the light.