Arcana Coelestia (Elliott) n. 1969

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1969. Evil spirits in the next life consist of hardly anything else than evil desires and delusions, having acquired no other life to themselves. Their delusions are such that they do not perceive them at all as being delusions but as being actual realities. Men's delusions cannot be compared to theirs, since even in this respect their state is superior to men's. Delusions such as these exist all the time with those in hell, where by means of delusions one pitiably torments another.


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