AE 803 - after we have grown up

AE 803 [2]
(3) When a person begins to think for himself,
which is the case after he has grown up,
it must be to him the first and chief thing
to refrain from doing evils
for the reason that they are sins against the Word,
thus against God,
and for the reason that if he does them he will gain,
not life eternal, but hell;
and afterwards as he grows up and becomes old
he must shun them as damned,
and must turn away from them in thought and intention.
But in order to so refrain from them and shun and turn away from them,
he must pray to the Lord for help.
The sins he must refrain from and must shun and turn away from
are chiefly adulteries, frauds, illicit gains, hatreds, revenges,
lies, blasphemies, and elation of mind.
(4) So far as a person detests these evils
because they are opposed to the Word,
and so opposed to God,
so far there is granted him communication with the Lord,
and conjunction is effected with heaven.
For the Lord enters,
and with the Lord heaven enters, as sins are removed;
since these and their falsities are the sole hindrances.
The reason is because a person has been placed in the midst
between heaven and hell,
wherefore hell acts from the one side,
and heaven from the other;
therefore so far as evils that are from hell are removed,
so far goods from heaven enter . . .