705. It was said, moreover, that heaven is never wholly closed, even to eternity, but that it is closed for a reason like that here described, and especially for the reason that the remaining spirits were not yet prepared. No one can be admitted before he has been prepared; and if perchance, anyone were admitted by permission for special reasons - that he might act as a kind of a ferment - he is afterwards rejected thence with the utmost ignominy.