The future life must be in Correspondence with the ruling life fixed in the Limbus, for the influx must be determined by the basis, or ultimate, into which it is received. The interior life could by no possible law or reason be any other than a reactive effect of the exterior basis. The foundation must determine the form of the superstructure. Upon the quiescence of the Limbus the acquired life becomes fixed. Therefore at death, character and spiritual possibilities are determined by the fixed plane in the Limbus acquired by the quality of the life lived in the natural world. It is not by arbitrary judgment, but through the inexorable laws of creation that all are recompensed "according to their deeds"; that those who have lived for self alone, "go away into everlasting punishment"; and that those who have done good to their brethren, enter "into life eternal."
The different degrees of life in the spiritual world have the basis in the Limbus. If the basis of any discrete degree of spiritual life is not laid in the Limbus, it can not be opened in the spiritual world. If life such as is with the angels of any of the three heavens does not have a basis fixed in the ultimate, the corresponding degrees of the internal mind close, and fix the "great gulf", so that they
