1140. Moreover, such as are altogether unwilling to hear or to admit interior and more interior things remain outside heaven, nor can they do otherwise than entertain a hatred of these things because they are interior and more interior, and also a hatred of those who teach them. I expect this will be the case with many on earth in the future who will hate the interior and to a greater degree the more interior things of the Word, because they touch the life of their loves too closely; and also they raise difficulties which seem to them as impossibilities. Thus they prefer that the way to interior things should be closed, rather than that they should favor them with assent; and in addition, they do not want to be disturbed by such things, which they are not capable of understanding.