6625. All this now indicates what kinds of thoughts are entertained by people who live badly and therefore think badly. Such people’s thoughts harbor hatred, vengefulness, envy, deceit, adultery, arrogance, an outward decency that mimics honor, a show of chastity, and friendship for the sake of rank and monetary gain that is no friendship, besides unmentionable foulness and filth. In addition, their minds contain a handful of religious teachings that justify their cravings, or in the absence of these, cynicism and ridicule. Such traits and others like them fill the thoughts of people who live wicked lives and therefore think wicked thoughts.
If people like this fill their thoughts with ideas like these, then when they go to the other world they are inevitably separated and distanced from heaven, where such things cause horror.
