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In What Status Are the Hells
Some spirit mediums say that everybody who has died will live happy in the spirit world: so there is nothing to worry about the afterlife. But, Swedenborg, an 18th century elite scholar and psychic, warned that every soul who entered into the spirit world after death in this world should go to either Heaven or the hells.
So, it is necessary to see what Swedenborg saw in the hells through his spiritual experiences:
Heaven and Hell #400There is nothing spirits want more when they are arriving in the other life from this world than to get into heaven. Almost all of them expect to because they believe that heaven is simply a matter of being let in and accepted. Because this is what they want, then, they are taken to some community of the outmost heaven. If they are devoted to love for themselves and the world, then the moment they reach the first border of that heaven they begin to feel pain and to be so tormented within that they feel as though they were in hell rather than in heaven. So they themselves dive down headlong and are not at rest until they are with their own kind in the hells.
Even souls of bad and evil men want to enter into Heaven. But, they cannot bear to see bright light in Heaven coming from the God, so that they will run away from Heaven to gather themselves and hide in the hells. The hells are not the place to punish souls of bad and evil men but the place where bad and evil men would go and hide spontaneously.
But specifically what are those souls of bad and evil men doing in the hells?
Spiritual Experiences #5830They also said that thousands choose to live in hell rather than outside it. It was also found that they have no other delight than doing as much evil as they dare and are able to do to whomever they see.
In the hells, stronger and more evil souls would attack weaker ones among them. Satan, the strongest and worst one, requests others to call him the god and revere him. All the souls in various hells would do evil things as much as possible to one another without restrictions in the human world, which rejoices them so much. But some evil spirits that cannot withstand attacks from others would flee to a wilder hell where they roam like wild animals. However, slight light from the God can reach to the hells to save any repenting souls, although fear rules the hells.
Heaven and Hell #400It ought to be known that the sole means of restraining the violence and fury of those who are in the hells is the fear of punishment. There is no other way.
So, the hells reflect the inner nature of the dark side in this world. Even in this world, bad and evil guys would do any harm to others as much as possible to satisfy their insane desires, if they were not stopped by laws, social restriction, Heavenly interference, etc.
Various hells where the souls of bad and evil men would choose and go depending on their tastes are the place opposite to Heaven where souls of poor and faithful men receive eternal life as promised by Christ Jesus.
Bad and evil men love evil things and the hells. That is why they try to create hells in this human world to others who are especially poor and faithful. And, they do so specifically by being rich and holding worldly power. That is also why being rich, elite, socially successful, and materially happy in this world is evil, so that Christ Jesus said that rich men cannot enter into Heaven as a camel cannot go through the eye of a needle.
Matthew 11, King James Version
25 At that time Jesus answered and said, I thank thee, O Father, Lord of heaven and earth, because thou hast hid these things from the wise and prudent, and hast revealed them unto babes.
26 Even so, Father: for so it seemed good in thy sight.
27 All things are delivered unto me of my Father: and no man knoweth the Son, but the Father; neither knoweth any man the Father, save the Son, and he to whomsoever the Son will reveal him.
28 Come unto me, all ye that labour and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest.
29 Take my yoke upon you, and learn of me; for I am meek and lowly in heart: and ye shall find rest unto your souls.
30 For my yoke is easy, and my burden is light.