Arcana Coelestia (Elliott) n. 8244

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8244. While they are in the world they also believe that after death they are going to feel a fire that will warm their face. The source of this belief is the wise among them, who know that fire in the spiritual world is love, that that fire is the fire of life, and that from this fire angels obtain their heat. In addition those among them who have led lives governed by heavenly love receive their wish; they feel their face being made warmer as if by a fire. At the same time the interiors of their mind are alight, not with heat but with love.


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