AC 4901 - Earthly Times and Heavenly States; AC 4906 - Good

AC 4901 [2-3] - Earthly Times and Heavenly States

That times mean states is because
times do not exist in the other life.
The progression of the life of spirits and angels
indeed appears as in time;
but they have no thought from times,
as people in the world have;
their thought is from states of the life,
and this without notion of times.
The reason of this is
that the progressions of their life
are not distinguished into different ages,
for there they do not grow old,
and there are no days or years,
because their sun,
which is the Lord,
is always rising and never sets.
Consequently no notion of time enters their thoughts,
but only a notion of state and its progressions --
notions being taken from the things
that are and exist before the senses.

These things must needs seem paradoxical,
but only for the reason
that a person in every idea of his thought
has somewhat adjoined from time and space.
From this source are his memory and recollection,
and also his lower thought,
the ideas of which are called material.
But that memory out of which comes such ideas
is quiescent in the other life.
Those who are in that life are in interior memory,
and in the ideas of its thought;
and thought from this latter memory
has not times and spaces adjoined to it,
but states and their progressions instead.
Consequently it is that they also correspond,
and in consequence of such correspondence
times in the Word signify states.

AC 4906 - Good

. . . good is actually spiritual fire,
from which comes the spiritual heat
which is life-giving,
and evil is the fire and the consequent heat
which consumes.