AC 4110 - The Spirits With a Person; AC 4111 - Changes of State in the Other Life; AC 4112 - Good and Truth in the Word

AC 4110 [2]

There are good spirits,
there are spirits of an intermediate kind,
and there are evil spirits.
These are linked to a person
when he is being regenerated,
to the end that through them
he may be introduced into genuine goods and truths --
which the Lord effects by means of angels.
But they are the kinds of spirits
or communities of spirits
who do not accord, except for a time,
with the one to be regenerated,
and therefore when they have performed their use
they are separated.
The separation of them is effected in differing ways --
the separation of the good spirits in one way,
that of the spirits of the intermediate kind in another,
and that of the evil spirits in yet another.
The separation of the good spirits
is effected without their being directly conscious of it,
for they know from the Lord's good pleasure
that all is well with them
wherever they are or to wherever the Lord takes them.
But the separation of the spirits of the intermediate kind
is effected by many means until they depart in freedom.
They are returned to the state of their own good,
and consequently to the state of the use they serve
and of the end they therefore have in view,
so that in that state
they may experience the delight and blessing
that are their own.
But because they have derived pleasure
out of their previous connection
with the one who is being regenerated
they are several times returned to
and then released from that connection
until they no longer take any delight in staying with him
and so depart in freedom.
Evil spirits too are indeed removed in freedom,
but in a kind of freedom
which appears to them to be freedom.
They are linked to the person
who is being regenerated
so that they may introduce negative ideas
which have to be dispelled,
the intention being that this person
may be strengthened all the more in truths and goods.
And when he starts to be strengthened in these,
those spirits take no delight in staying with him,
only in separation from him.
In this way they are separated by a feeling of freedom
that accompanies their delight.
This is how the separation takes place
of spirits present with a person
when he is being regenerated,
and how as a consequence
changes of his state
as regards good and truth are brought about.

AC 4111 [3]

For speaking generally,
the changes of state in the other life
are nothing else than approaches to the Divine
and removals from the Divine.

AC 4112

. . . where truth is treated of in the Word,
good is also treated of,
because of the heavenly marriage of good and truth
in every particular of the Word.