LJ 73 - after the Last Judgment, spiritual freedom has been restored

Last Judgment 73

The state of the world hereafter
will be altogether similar to what it has been heretofore,
for the great change which has taken place in the spiritual world,
does not induce any change in the natural world as to the external form . . .
for the Word in its prophecies does not treat of the kingdoms on earth,
nor of the nations there, thus neither concerning their wars,
nor of famines, pestilences, and earthquakes there,
but of such things as correspond to them in the spiritual world . . . .
But henceforth the person of the church
will be in a more free state of thinking on matters of faith,
thus on the spiritual things which relate to heaven,
because spiritual freedom has been restored to him.
For all things in the heavens and in the hells are now reduced into order,
and all thought concerning Divine things
and against the Divine inflows from thence;
from the heavens all thought which is in harmony with Divine things,
and from the hells all which is against Divine things.
But a person does not observe this change of state in himself,
because he does not reflect upon it,
and because he knows nothing of spiritual freedom and of influx;
nevertheless it is perceived in heaven,
and also by a person himself after his death.
Because spiritual freedom has been restored to mankind,
therefore the spiritual sense of the Word has now been disclosed,
and by it interior Divine truths have been revealed . . ..