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exalts them when it does not mingle in, for which reason the Lord
separates good and evil with man that they shall not mingle, as
exquisitely as He does heaven and hell.

25. Conjunction of good and truth in others is provided by the Lord
through _purification_ in two ways; one through temptations, and the
other through fermentations. _Spiritual temptations_ are nothing else
than combats against the evils and falsities exhaled from hell and
affecting man. By these combats a man is purified from evils and
falsities, and good and truth are united in him. _Spiritual
fermentations_ take place in many ways, and in heaven as well as on
earth; but in the world it is not known what they are or how they come
about. For evils and their falsities, let into societies, act as ferments
do in meal or in must, separating the heterogeneous and conjoining the
homogeneous until there is clarity and purity. Such fermentations are
meant in the Lord's words:

The kingdom of heaven is like leaven which a woman took and hid in three
measures of meal until the whole was leavened (Mt 13:33; Lu 12:21).

26. The Lord provides these uses through the united evil and falsity of
those in hell. The Lord's kingdom, which extends over hell as well as
over heaven, is a kingdom of uses. It is the Lord's providence that there
shall be no creature and no thing whereby a use is not performed.

II. THE LORD'S DIVINE PROVIDENCE HAS FOR ITS OBJECT A HEAVEN FROM THE
HUMAN RACE

27. Heaven does not consist of angels created such to begin with, nor
does hell come from any devil created an angel of light and cast down
from heaven. Both heaven and hell are from mankind, heaven consisting of
those in the love of good and consequent understanding of truth, and hell
of those in the love of evil and consequent understanding of falsity.
This has been made known and sure to me by long-continued intercourse
with angels and spirits. See what was said on the subject in the work
_Heaven and Hell_ (nn. 311-316); also in the little work _The Last
Judgment_ (nn. 14-27), and in _Continuation about the Last Judgment and
the Spiritual World_ (throughout).

[2] As heaven is from mankind and is an abiding with the Lord to
eternity, it must have been the Lord's purpose in creation; being the
purpose in creation, it is the purpose of His providence. The Lord
created the world not for His own sake but for the sake of those with
whom He would be in heaven. Spiritual love by natu