SD 1139, 1140
There are spirits who, although they are good,
cannot as yet be admitted into heaven
because they are not willing to hear and to admit
the interior and more interior things of the Word . . ..
For they who do not agree to interior things
cannot learn the things
which are of the interior and more interior person,
since they do not know that there are interior,
still less more interior things,
such as those that concern the works of faith
done from obedience to the Word.
. . . Moreover, those who do not want at all to hear
and open their minds to inward and more inward things,
remain outside of heaven,
and they cannot help entertaining a kind of hatred of them,
because they are inward and very inward things,
and also of those who teach them.
I expect there will be many on earth in the future
who hate the inward things of the Word,
and the very inward things even more,
because these touch the life of their loves too closely,
confronting them with what they see as insurmountable difficulties.
So they much prefer that the way toward inward things be closed off
than that they should favor them with assent.
Besides, they do not want to be bothered by such things
as they are not capable of understanding.
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