Arcana Coelestia (Elliott) n. 10745

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10745. Therefore when they enter the next life, which happens immediately after death, and outward constraints are taken away from them, they plunge into every kind of wicked activity in accord with their inner impulses, namely contempt for others in comparison with themselves, enmity, hatred, vengeance, brutality, cruelty, and above all hypocrisy, deceit, trickery, and many more kinds of malevolence. All these are by now the delights of their life; therefore they are separated from the good and cast into hell.


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