. . . in respect to his spirit
a person is in the spiritual world and in some society there
in a society of hell if he is evil,
and in a society of heaven if he is good.
For a person's mind,
being in itself spiritual,
can only be among spiritual beings,
into whose company he also comes after death.
The person is not present there as a spirit enrolled in the society, however,
for a person is continually in a state to be reformed.
Consequently, in accordance with his life and the changes in it,
he is conveyed by the Lord,
if he is evil,
from one society of hell to another.
And if he allows himself to be reformed,
he is led out of hell and raised into heaven,
and there, too, conveyed from one society to another, and this until his death.
After that he no longer travels from society to society there,
because he is then no longer in a state to be reformed,
but remains in the state he had in accordance with his life.
It is when a person dies, then, that he is enrolled in his place.
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