1140. Moreover, those who do not want at all to hear and open their minds to inward and more inward things, remain outside of heaven, and they cannot help entertaining a kind of hatred of them, because they are inward and very inward things, and also of those who teach them. I expect there will be many on earth in the future who hate the inward things of the Word, and the very inward things even more, because these touch the life of their loves too closely, confronting them with what they see as insurmountable difficulties. So they much prefer that the way toward inward things be closed off than that they should favor them with assent. Besides, they do not want to be bothered by such things as they are not capable of understanding.