The Lord created us to be separate from Himself, so that He could love us. He thus allows us to act contrary to His will -- to want what is evil and to believe what is false. When we accept the Lord, though -- by learning what's true and determining to live according to it -- we can let Him place inside us a love for what is good. That is our "inheritance.

2532. From all this it is evident how unhappy those become after death who are deceitful and prone to deceptions, for it is deceits that occupy this inward realm. They are entirely cast away from the realm of inward spirits and so from the world of spirits, and are kept elsewhere. They are tormented for a much longer time with longer lasting pains and tortures, and there finally remains of them very little. For it takes a long time of torture for the deceits to be rooted out that had entered into and made up their earthly character. Until these are purged, the inward person cannot operate, as there are intermediate elements between the inward person and the outward, and before the intermediates become fitting, no working through their inward person can take place.