AR 756 - affections not in the stream of Providence

AR 756 [2]
It is not known in the world,
that all after death become affections of the ruling love in themselves.
Those become good affections,
who have looked to the Lord and to heaven,
and at the same time have shunned evils as sins;
but those become evil affections, which are lusts,
who have looked only to themselves and the world,
and have shunned evils not as sins,
but only as hurtful to one's reputation and honor.
Those affections appear to the life and are perceived in the spiritual world,
but in the natural world, only the thoughts from the affections.
Hence it is, that a person does not know
that hell is in the affections of the love of evil,
and heaven in the affections of the love of good.

That a person does not know and that he does not perceive it,
is because the lusts of the love of evil derive from heredity
that they are delightful in the will,
and thence are pleasant in the understanding;
and a person does not reflect upon that which is delightful and pleasant,
because it leads his mind [animus] along,
as the current of a swift river carries a vessel.
Wherefore they who have immersed themselves
in those delights and pleasures
cannot come to the delights and pleasures
of the affections of the love of good and truth
any otherwise than as those
who urge the oars against the current of the swift river
with the strong power of the arms.
But it is otherwise with those who have not immersed themselves deeply.