Reversed Correspondence between the Human World and the Spirit World
According to Swedenborg, a great psychic in the 18th century, there is correspondence between this human world or this material world and the spirit world or the afterlife. But, it must be a reciprocal number-related relationship. What is large in this world should be small in the spirit world. What has big value in this world should have small value in the afterlife.
Being rich in this world means being poor in the spirit world. Being poor in this world should mean being rich in the spirit world. Therefore, Christ Jesus said to be poor in this world, so that wealth will be accumulated in the spirit world. Indeed, the value system is opposite between this world and the afterlife. This is the key to understanding this world, Heaven, and the hells in Christianity. And, understanding this relationship means obtaining enlightenment in Buddhism. But, love and truth of the God should be exceptional.
So, the value system based on the amount of money and wealth is not effective in the spirit world or the afterlife. The value system in Heaven should be solely based on how much one loves the God. But, the value system in the hells should be based on how much you hate the God.
Yet, in the human world, people love money more than the God. People revere money more than the God. Actually people regard money as a god, since money can solve any problems in this world. However, money is another form of Satan. Therefore, people revere Satan as a god.
But, in the spirit world, you do not need money to get what you want. According to Swedenborg, when you think about something, it will be realized. Whatever you wish will be soon realized in the spirit world. So, spirits of dead men in the spirit world should want what money cannot buy. And what they want is love for the God or love for Satan. They want to realize love with the God or Satan. So, those who love the God will go up into Heaven, but those who love Satan will go down to the hells.
And, Satan who knows it will be finally destroyed by the God is trying to harm and soil the God as much as possible before it is eradicated by the God. So, Satan is so evil and crazy. Its followers will be like Satan.
Anyway, the more you have money, the more you can be happy in this world. But, the more you have love to money, the less you will be happy in the spirit world. Yet, the more you have hatred to the God, the more you feel happiness in the hells. Indeed, the hells are governed and ruled by Satan who is so evil and crazy.
Put simply, sanity in the human world to seek money for happiness is madness in the spirit world where one's idea is realized when it is thought about. What you need in the spirit world is love to the God. However, most of men who go into the spirit world cannot realize this truth or they continue to love Satan as a god.
But, a man with the physical body needs money to buy foods, clothes, the residence, etc. So, he will think it is crazy to believe that such necessities will be provided by the God only if he loves the God. But, this craziness is recommended by Christ Jesus, and many people believed in Christ Jesus once, so that Christianity prevailed. But, Satan has almost succeeded in making all the people love money as a god since material civilization started to give more convenience and comfort with development of material science and technology in the 19th century onwards.
Yet, the more you have money, the more you are rejected at the entrance of Heaven. This difference or discrimination in the spirit world must correspond reversely to that in the human world.
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Luke 9, King James Version
22 Saying, The Son of man must suffer many things, and be rejected of the elders and chief priests and scribes, and be slain, and be raised the third day.
23 And he said to them all, If any man will come after me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross daily, and follow me.
24 For whosoever will save his life shall lose it: but whosoever will lose his life for my sake, the same shall save it.
25 For what is a man advantaged, if he gain the whole world, and lose himself, or be cast away?
26 For whosoever shall be ashamed of me and of my words, of him shall the Son of man be ashamed, when he shall come in his own glory, and in his Father's, and of the holy angels.
27 But I tell you of a truth, there be some standing here, which shall not taste of death, till they see the kingdom of God.