4775. [4807.] Those come together in the other life who had hated each other in the life of the body

There were many evil spirits who lay concealed for a long time, enclosed in a special hell out of which they were unable to break forth. I wondered on several occasions who they might be. One evening they were let out, and the loud sound of them was heard below me, like a turmoil, that lasted the whole night, and when they were granted the opportunity to speak, I heard their blasphemies against me, and [saw] their effort in trying to ascend and destroy me. I asked from the angels the reason, and they said that they had harbored hatred against me when they were alive, and yet they were people I had never done any harm. I was instructed that when they but sense the aura of someone they had held in hatred, they become enraged, and pant for the person's destruction; but they were sent again into their own hell. [4808.] That those who had mutually harbored hatred for one another come together in the other life, and from both sides attempt many evils against each other, became very well known to me from many examples. For hatred interacts with antipathy, and becomes like a spiritual antipathy, for when they sense the other's aura, they at once become enraged. This shows what it involves that the Lord says of those who are enemies, that they should be reconciled: "if you have ought against your brother, go to him...." [Matthew 5:23-24].