818. After the Last Judgment, which took place in the spiritual world in 1757, everyone's state, so including that of the Roman Catholics, was changed. They are no longer allowed to form groups as formerly; but every love, good as well as evil, has paths assigned to it, and those arriving from the world at once enter upon these, and proceed to communities answering to their loves. By this means the wicked are sent to communities in hell, the good to communities in heaven. Care is thus taken to prevent the formation of artificial heavens, as happened before. There are very many communities of this kind in the world of spirits, which is half-way between heaven and hell. There are as many communities as there are genera and species of affections of love for good or evil. In the meantime, before being raised to heaven or cast down to hell, they are spiritually linked to people in the world, because they too are half-way between heaven and hell.