Arcana Coelestia #547
547. CHAPTER 6
HEAVEN AND HEAVENLY JOY - continued
All souls who enter the next life are ignorant of what heaven is and what heavenly joy is. The majority imagine it to be a form of joy which any can be let into no matter how they have lived, even those who have hated their neighbour and have gone through life committing adultery. They are totally unaware of the fact that heaven is mutual and chaste love, and that heavenly joy is the resulting happiness.
Micah 7:11-14
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A day to build your walls-- In that day, he will extend your boundary.
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In that day they will come to you from Assyria and the cities of Egypt, and from Egypt even to the River, and from sea to sea, and mountain to mountain.
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Yet the land will be desolate because of those who dwell therein, for the fruit of their doings.
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Shepherd your people with your staff, the flock of your heritage, who dwell by themselves in a forest, in the midst of fertile pasture land, let them feed; in Bashan and Gilead, as in the days of old.
