AC 806 - "dry land"

AC 806
"Dry land" is where there is no water, that is, where there is no longer anything spiritual, still less celestial. A persuasion of falsity extinguishes and as it were suffocates everything spiritual and celestial; as every one may know from much experience, if he pays attention. They who have once conceived opinions, though most false, cling to them so obstinately that they are not even willing to hear anything that is contrary to them; so that they never suffer themselves to be informed, even if the truth be placed before their eyes.... Such are they who spurn every truth, and that which they admit, they pervert and thus immerse in fantasies. It is they who are signified here by the "dry land"...