up in themselves; and likewise the evils and falsities wherein are the spirits who, in the world of spirits, are connected with the hells; but the spirits themselves cannot see their own evils and falsities. What the good of heavenly love is, what conscience, what sincerity and justice,—except as practised for some selfish end,—and what it is to be led by the Lord, they do not comprehend. They declare that there are no such things, and therefore that they are nothing.
These things are said to induce man to examine himself, and from his delights learn the quality of his love, and what therefore will be the state of his life after death, so far as he understands the science of correspondences.
DELIGHTS OF THE EVIL.
How the delights of every one's life are turned into corresponding delights after death, may indeed be known from the science of correspondences. But because that science is not yet generally known, I will illustrate the subject by some examples from experience.
All those who are in evil, and have confirmed themselves in falsities against the truths of the church, and especially those who have rejected the Word shun the light of heaven, and betake themselves to subterranean places, which through the
