507. When in this second state, spirits become visibly just what they had been in themselves while in the world, what they then did and said secretly being now made manifest; for now, because external things do not restrain them, they speak such things openly, and also try to do them, not being fearful for their reputation as in the world. They are also brought into many states of their evils, that what they are may be evident to angels and good spirits. Thus are hidden things laid open and secret things uncovered, in accordance with the Lord's words:
There is nothing covered up that shall not be revealed, and hid that shall not be known. Whatsoever ye have said in the darkness shall be heard in the light, and what ye have spoken in the ear in the inner chambers shall be proclaimed on the housetops. Luke xii. 2, 3.
And elsewhere:
I say unto you, that every idle word that men shall speak, they shall give account thereof in the day of judgment. Matt. xii. 36.
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