receive the life that constitutes heaven than the eye of the cave-fish can receive the light of the sun; yet one must continue to live, as he only can, in some plane of the Natural Mind in an undeveloped state. Therefore those who fail to provide for the reception of heaven's life, are gathered into an order by themselves, which is called hell, where for want of preparation for a higher life they must remain in the limitations of the merely natural delights or externality, commonly called worldliness and self-love.
The Hells, Which Are Three, Are Governed
By The Lord.
Since there are three planes of the Natural Mind, by the regeneration of which the heavens are constituted, so there are three hells formed from these planes perverted or unregenerated. Into the hells are gathered all those who have used natural things with wrong motives, and have allowed pleasures and appetites, or the love of gain, honor, position, and the world to destroy all love of use to others. With such the Spiritual Mind is not perverted, because it coincides with the heavens, and no evil or falsity can enter there; but it is closed, and the Natural Mind is infilled with evils and falsities, or spiritual substance in perverted forms in which evils and falsities inhere.
