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observes how others speak and act, and adapts himself to them, and to his surroundings, as he had been used to do in the world, by the exteriors of his spirit. He inquires for friends, meets them and talks with them. He learns about the nature and laws of that world; and as he becomes accustomed to his new life his sense of freedom is increased, and where he felt obliged to conceal and dissemble his affections and thoughts he finds himself less inclined, and is less able to do so. The pressure of his interior life to express itself reveals the state of his ruling love and brings the exteriors into conformity with it. He must become the form of his own love and nothing else. Everything that is not in agreement with it must be cast off. This is the divinely appointed order; and this is the judgment. Thus the evil are separated from the good, and man comes into his own life and remains in it forever. It is the life of hell with those who have loved themselves and the world above all things; and it is the life of heaven with those who have loved the Lord above all, and their neighbor as themselves. The evil cast themselves into hell; and the good, after preparation by instruction, are conducted under the Lord's auspices to their place in heaven.