There are spirits who are good except for the fact, due to which they cannot yet be let into heaven, that they do not want to hear, or open their minds to, the inward and more inward contents of the Word. Consequently, they have thought evilly against me, and given them a wrong interpretation. They who do not assent to inward things cannot learn about the inward and more inward person [in us], because they do not know that inward things exist, much less very inward things, such as regard the works of faith done in obedience to the Word. They call those works good that are done by the good, from a good heart. But if it is said that good works ought to be works of charity, and charity is from compassion, and thus from the Lord the Savior, they admit to this, but have not thought about it very deeply. Therefore, those who are such and do not let these things enter, cannot as yet be let into the inward heaven by the road of spiritual knowledge.