2598. The reason they are so often expelled and sent back among lower spirits, to whom they are then entirely similar, is that when a spirit is elevated into heaven-which also happens every day, and in great number-then those who have not been guided through many states so as to be able to associate with many spiritual and heavenly states, when they come into a spiritual or heavenly state into which they have not been initiated by the Lord, they are absorbed in falsity, so they fall down and are initiated into those states also.