TCR 789 - Swedenborg to Calvin on Predestination; TCR 799 - Luther, Melanchton and Calvin

TCR 798 [9]

When I heard this I rejoined in great indignation:
"You speak blasphemy. Begone, wicked spirit!
Do you not know, since you are now in the spiritual world,
that there is a heaven, and that there is a hell?
Predestination, therefore, implies
that some are appointed for heaven and some for hell.
The only idea of God then that you can form
is that of a tyrant,
who admits his favorites into his city,
and consigns the rest to torture.
Shame on you!"

TCR 799

I have conversed with many other spirits,
with followers of these three leaders
as well as with heretics.
It has been granted me to conclude
that such of them as have lived a life of charity,
and especially those
who have loved truth because it is truth,
willingly undergo instruction in the spiritual world
and receive the doctrines of the New Church.
On the other hand,
those who have confirmed themselves
in the falsities of religion,
and also those who have lived an evil life,
refuse to be instructed.
These gradually withdraw from the new heaven
and associate with their like in hell,
where they obstinately confirm themselves
more and more against the worship of the Lord,
till they cannot bear to hear the name of Jesus.
The reverse is the case in heaven;
for there all with one accord
acknowledge the Lord as God of heaven.