AE 1155 [4]
If a person could have been reformed by miracles and visions,
all in the whole world would have been reformed.
It is therefore a holy law of the Divine providence
that internal freedom should in no way be violated;
for by that freedom the Lord enters into a person,
even into the hell where he is,
and by it leads him while in hell,
and if he is willing to follow,
leads him out of hell and leads him into heaven,
and nearer and nearer to Himself in heaven.
In this and in no other way is a person led out of infernal freedom,
which regarded in itself is slavery, because it is from hell,
and is led into heavenly freedom, which is freedom itself,
becoming by degrees more free, and at length most free,
because it is from the Lord
who wills that a person should not be in the least compelled.
This is the way of a person's reformation,
but this way is closed by miracles and visions.
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