HH 420 - the immensity of heaven

HH 420
. . . heaven is never closed,
and that there is no time predetermined,
or any limit of number;
and that those are called the "elect"
who are in a life of good and truth;
and those are called "poor"
who are lacking in knowledges of good and truth and yet desire them;
and such from that desire are also called hungry.

Those that have conceived an idea
of the small extent of heaven from the Word . . .
believe it to be in one place,
where all are gathered together;
when, in fact, heaven consists of innumerable societies.

Such also have no other idea
than that heaven is granted to everyone from mercy apart from means,
and thus that there is admission and reception from mere favor;
and they fail to understand
that the Lord from mercy leads everyone who accepts Him,
and that he accepts Him
who lives in accordance with the laws of divine order,
which are the precepts of love and of faith,
and that the mercy that is meant
is to be thus led by the Lord from infancy
to the last period of life in the world and afterwards to eternity.
Let them know, therefore,
that every person is born for heaven,
and that he is received that receives heaven in himself in the world,
and he that does not receive it is shut out.