RE: God Loves Me, Too
April 4, 2013 at 10:09 pm
(This post was last modified: April 4, 2013 at 10:14 pm by Neo-Scholastic.)
(April 4, 2013 at 7:20 pm)Cinjin Wrote: ummm, and where are you getting this little tidbit of information??
"...he that is in the mere delight of the body or of the flesh can have no knowledge of or belief in a single one of these innumerable delights; for his interiors, as has just been said, look away from heaven towards the world, thus backwards....or what is the same, in the love of self and of the world, has no sense of delight except in honor, in gain, and in the pleasures of the body and the senses" Heaven and Hell 398
"... A little child was then sent by the Lord, at whose presence they [the wicked] were so tortured that they could scarcely breathe, in which state they were kept even until driven to supplications, and thus were thrust down into hell...The persuasion of truth when man is in the life of evil is of such a nature that he persuades himself that truth is truth, not for the sake of good as the end, but for the sake of evil as the end, namely, that he may thereby gain honors, reputation, and wealth. The very worst of all are able to be in such a persuasion, and also in apparent zeal, to such a degree as to condemn to hell all who are not in truth, however much these may be in good. (Concerning this persuasion see n. 2689, 3865.) When such persons first come into the other life they believe themselves to be angels; but they cannot approach any angelic society; being as it were suffocated by their own persuasion as soon as they come near it....." Heaven and Hell 3895.
