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This being their quality or character, they also thought that the Lord's heaven consisted solely of those few. But it was permitted me to tell them that the Lord's heaven is immense, consisting of every people and tongue, and that all are in it who have been principled in the good of love and faith.

And it was shown that there are in heaven those who have relation to all the provinces of (he body, both as to its exteriors and interiors; but that, if they aspired further than to those things which correspond to their life, they could not have heaven, especially if they condemned others who were out of their society; and that, in such case their society is a society of interior friendship, the nature of which is such that they deprive others of the blessed principle of spiritual affection when they approach them; for they regard them as not the elect and not alive, which thought when communicated induces what is sad. And yet this sadness, according to the law of order in the other life, returns to them. (A. C. 4805.)

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