are prepared for heaven. They afterwards become more constant than others, so that they may be fitly called constancies; and they do not allow themselves to be led away by any reasoning, or fallacy, or obscurity brought on by sophistries, or by any preposterous view, deduced from mere confirmatory appearances.

50. The Dutch are easily distinguished from others in the spiritual world, because they appear in the same kind of garments as in the natural world, excepting, that the dress is neater among those who have received faith and spiritual life. They appear in similar garments, because they remain steadfastly in the principles of their own religion; and all in the spiritual world, are clothed according to their religious principles; whence it is, that they who are in Divine Truths, have garments of white and of fine linen.

51. The cities which the Dutch inhabit, are guarded in a peculiar manner, all their streets being covered in, and provided with gates, in order that they may not be overlooked from the surrounding rocks and hills. This the inhabitants do, from their inherent prudence in concealing their designs, and not divulging their intentions; for these things in the spiritual world, are portrayed by inspection. If any one enters a city with the animus of exploring their state, when he is about departing, he is led to the closed gates of the streets, backwards and forwards from one to another, and this, to the most wearisome extent, and he is then let out: all this being done, to prevent him from returning. Wives who affect authority over their husbands, dwell on one side of the city, and only meet them by invitation, given formally; and the husbands then lead them to houses, where married pairs are living, without there being any dominion of the one over the other, and show them how ornamental and how neat their houses are, and how joyous their life is, and that these are the results of mutual and conjugial love. Those wives who attend to, and are affected with these things, cease to domineer, and they live with their husbands, and they then obtain a dwelling nearer to the middle, and are called angels. The reason is, that conjugial love is a celestial love, which is free from imperiousness.

53. In the days of the last judgment, I saw many thousands of that nation cast out of the cities in the spiritual world, and out of the villages, and surrounding country. They were those, who, when in the world, had done nothing of good from any religion or conscience, but merely to preserve reputation, that they might appear sincere for

the sake of gain; for such persons, when they no longer have the prospect of fame and gain, as is the case in the spiritual world, then rush into every abomination; and when they are in the fields, and without the cities, they rob every one they encounter. I saw them cast into a fiery gulf stretching under the eastern tract, and into a dark cavern stretching under the southern tract. This I saw on the 9th day of January, 1757. Those only were left, among whom there was religion, and a conscience derived from religion.

54. I have spoken, but only once, with Calvin; he was in a society of heaven, which appears in front, above the head; and he said, that he did not agree with Luther and Melancthon, about faith alone, because works are so often named in the Word, and the doing of them commanded, and that, therefore, faith and works ought to be conjoined. I was told by one of the governors of that society, that Calvin was accepted in his society, because he was honest (probus), and made no disturbance.

55. What Luther's lot is, shall be told elsewhere, for I have often seen and heard him. Here, I shall only say, that he has often wished to recede from his faith alone, but in vain; and that therefore, he is still in the world of spirits, which is mediate between heaven and hell; where he sometimes undergoes great sufferings.

OF THE PAPISTS IN THE SPIRITUAL WORLD.

56. THE Papists, and the last judgment upon them, were treated of in the small work ON THE LAST JUDGMENT, n. 53 to 64. The Papists in the spiritual world appear encircling the Reformed, and are separated from them by an interval, which they are not permitted to pass. Nevertheless, those, who are of the order of Jesuits, contrive, by clandestine arts, to communicate with them, and send out emissaries, too, by unknown paths, for the purpose of seducing them. But they are discovered, and after being punished, they are either sent back to their companions, or are cast into hell.

57. After the last judgment, their state was so changed, that they were not allowed to gather together in companies, as they had done; but ways were appointed to every love, both good and evil, which those who come from the world, immediately enter, and go to a society correspondent to their love. Thus the wicked are borne away to a society in

conjunction with the hells, and the good to a society in conjunction with the heavens; and, in this manner, the future formation of artificial heavens, is provided against. Such societies in the world of spirits, which is mediate between heaven and hell, are innumerable; being as many, as there are genera and species of good and evil affections: and in the meantime, before spirits are either elevated into heaven, or cast down into hell, they are in spiritual conjunction with men in the world, because they, too, are in the midst between heaven and hell.

58. All those of the Papists, who have not been complete idolaters, and who, from their religious principles, have performed good works, out of a sincere heart, and have looked to the Lord, are led to societies which are instituted in the confines nearest to the Reformed, and are instructed there, the Word being read, and the Lord preached to them, and they who receive truths, and apply them to life, are elevated into heaven, and are made angels. There are many such societies of them in every quarter, and they are guarded on all sides from the treacheries and cunning devices of the monks, and from the Babylonish leaven. Moreover, all their infants are in heaven, because, being educated by the angels under the guidance of the Lord, they know nothing of the falses of their parent's religion.

59. All who go from the countries of the earth into the spiritual world, are at first kept in the confession of faith, and in the religion of their country; and so, therefore, are the Papists. On this account, they always have some representative Pontiff set over them, whom moreover they adore with the same ceremony as in the world. Seldom does any Pope from the world, act the Pontiff there; yet he who was Pope twenty years ago, was appointed over the Papists, because he loved to think, that the Word was more sacred than is believed, and that the Lord ought to be worshiped. But, after filling the office of Pope for some years, he abdicated it of his own accord, and betook himself to the Reformed Christians, among whom he still is, and enjoys a blessed life. It was granted me to speak with him, and he said, that he adores the Lord alone, because He is God, Who has power over heaven and earth, and that the invocations of saints, and their masses, too, are absurdities; and that when he was in the world, he intended to restore his church, but that for reasons, which he mentioned, he found it impossible to do so. When the great northern city of the Papists was destroyed, on the day of the last judgment, I saw him carried out of it on a couch, and taken to

a place of safety. A widely different event overtook his

successor.

60. Here I am allowed to add a certain memorable circumstance. It was granted me to speak with Louis the XIV., grandfather of the reigning King of France, who, whilst he lived in the world, worshiped the Lord, read the Word, and acknowledged the Pope only as the head of the church; in consequence of which, he has great dignity in the spiritual world, and governs the best society of the French nation. Once I saw him as it were descending by ladders, and after he descended, I heard him saying, that he seemed to himself as if at Versailles, and then there was silence for about half an hour; at the end of that time, he said, that he had spoken with the King of France, his grandson, concerning the Bull Unigenitus, advising him to desist from his former design, and not to accept it, because it was detrimental to the French nation; he said, that he insinuated this into his thought profoundly. This happened in the year 1759, on the 13th day of December, about eight o'clock in the evening.

OF THE POPISH SAINTS IN THE SPIRITUAL WORLD.

61. It is known that man derives implanted or hereditary evil from his parents, but in what it consists is known to few. It consists in the love of ruling, which is such, that in as far as the reins are given it, in so far it bursts forth, until it even burns with the lust of ruling over all, and at length of wishing to be invoked and worshiped as God. This love is the serpent, which deceived Eve and Adam, for it said to the woman, "God knows, that in the day ye eat of the fruit of the tree, your eyes shall be opened, and then ye shall be as God." Genesis iii. 4, 5. In the same proportion therefore as man rushes with loosened reins into this love, in the same proportion he averts himself from God, and turns towards himself, and becomes an atheist; and then the Divine Truths which belong to the Word, may possibly serve as means, but inasmuch as dominion is the end, the means are only loved in the ratio of their subserviency. This is the cause, why those who are in the mediate and in the ultimate degree of the love of ruling, are all in hell, for that love is the devil there; and in hell there are some of such a nature, that they cannot bear to hear any one mention God.

62. This love possesses those of the Papal nation, who

have been dominant from the stimulus of its delight, and have despised the Word, and preferred before it the dictates of the Pope. They are utterly devastated as regards externals, until they no longer know any thing of the church, and then they are cast down into hell and become devils. There is a certain separate hell for those who wish to be invoked as Gods, where such is their phantasy, that they do not see what is, but what is not. Their delirium is of the kind which affects persons in a malignant fever, who see things floating in the air, and in the chamber, and on the covering of the bed,-things which are not. This most dreadful evil, is understood by "the head of the serpent, which is bruised by the Seed of the woman, and which wounded His heel," Genesis iii. 15. The heel of the Lord, Who is the Seed of the woman, is the Divine proceeding in ultimates, which is the Word in the sense of the letter.

63. Because man's hereditary nature consists in the desire of ruling, and of ruling, as the reins are loosened, successively over more and more, and at length over all, and because the wish to be invoked and worshiped as God, is the inmost of this love of ruling, therefore all who have been canonized by the Papal Bulls, are removed from the sight of others and hidden, and are deprived of all intercourse with their worshipers. This is done, lest that worst root of evils should be excited in them, and they should be hurried into such phantastic deliriums, as prevail in the above-mentioned hell. In such deliriums are those, who, during their lives in the world, have studiously sought to be made saints after death, for the purpose of being invoked. 64. Many of the Papal nation, especially the monks, when they enter the spiritual world, seek the saints, each the saint of his own order; yet do not find them, and marvel that they do not; but are afterwards instructed by others, that their saints are either intermingled with those who are in the heavens, or with those who are in the hells, every one of them according to his life in the world; and that in whichsoever they be, they know nothing of the worship and invocation which is paid them, and that they who do know it, and wish to be invoked, are in that separate and delirious hell. The worship of saints is such an abomination in heaven, that the bare hearing of it causes horror, because, in as far as worship is paid to any man, in so far it is withheld from the Lord, for in this case He alone cannot be worshiped; and if the Lord is not alone worshiped, a dis