(71) For instead of thy Heaven, thou hast the Wrath-Devil fitting there; but if thou breakest through, then he must get him gone, and the Holy Ghost rules and reigns in that Seat, and in the other Part, viz. the Fierceness, the Devil tempts thee, for it is his Seat; and the Holy Ghost opposes him, and the new Man lies in his own Heaven hidden under the protection of the Holy Ghost, and the Devil knows not the new Man, for he is not in his House, but in Heaven, in the Firmament of God.

(50) But if thou fightest and strivest with the Devil, and keepest the Gate of Love in thy astral Birth, and so departest from hence as to the Body, then thy Soul remains in the Word quite hidden from the Devil, and reigns with God, even unto the Day of the Restitution of that which was lost.

(51) But if thou standest with thy astral Birth in the Wrath, when thou departest from hence as to the Body, and thy Soul not comprehended in the Word, then thou canst never reach the Gates of Heaven; but into what thou hast sown thy Seed, that is, thy Soul, in that very Part shall thy Body also rise. The Gate of the Power. But

(63) And in this Heaven dwells the Man that fears God, even with and in the living Body; for that Heaven is as well in Man, as in the Deep above the Earth. And as the Deep above the Earth is, so is Man also both in Love and Wrath, till after the Departure of the Soul; but then when the Soul departs from the Body, then it abides either only in the Heaven of Love, or only in the Heaven of Wrath. [f Or alive in the Body here upon Earth.]

(45) now seeing thou hast thy Reason, and art not like the Apple on the Tree, but art created an Angel and the Similitude or Image of God, instead of the expelled Devils, and knowest how thou canst with thy astral Birth, in the Part of Love, qualify or unite with the Word of God, therefore thou canst in the Center in the Word, set or put thy animated or soulish Birth into Heaven, and thou canst, with thy Soul, even with thy living Body in this dead or mortal Palpability, rule with God in Heaven.

(40) Now if thou hast lived well and holily in the Law of Nature, in this World, and hast not extinguished the clear Flash, which is the Son of God, which teaches thee the Law of Nature in thy seven qualifying or fountain Spirits, and hast not put it out through a fierce Elevation, which runs on contrary to the Knowledge of Nature, then wilt thou with all Christians live in eternal Joy. Note. [Or Conscience.]

(46) It is the Firmament between the clear Deity and the corrupt Nature, which thou must break through when thou intendest to come to God; and it is that very Firmament which does not quite stand in the Wrath, neither is it altogether or perfectly pure; concerning which it is written, 'The very Heavens are not pure in the Sight of God.' And at the last Judgment-Day the Wrath will be purged from them. For it is written, Heaven and Earth shall pass away, but my Word shall not pass away, says Christ. [Mark 13. 31.] [Matth. 24. 35.] [Job 15. 15.]