d to rule over holy things from an
infernal delight is to profane them.

But this second kind of profanation of the holy things of the church is
not like the former kind of the profanation of them. Those fall into
the former kind in whom a communication with heaven has been effected by
the opening of their spiritual mind; while this second kind of
profanation those fall into in whom the spiritual mind has not been
opened, or communication with heaven effected through it. For so long
as the delight of the love of ruling resides in man, that mind cannot be
opened, and communication with heaven is not possible to him.

Moreover, the lot of these profaners after death differs from the lot of
the former. The former, as has been said, are in an unceasing delirium
of fantasy; but these hate the Lord, hate heaven, hate the Word, hate
the church, and hate all its holy things; and they come into such hatred
because their dominion is taken away from them, and thus their state is
changed into its opposite. They appear like something fiery, and their
hell appears like a conflagration; for infernal fire is nothing else
than a lust for ruling from love of self. These are among the worst,
and are called devils, while the others are called satans. (A.E., n.
1055.)

The love of ruling by the holy things of the church as means wholly
shuts up the interiors of the human mind from the inmosts toward the
outmosts, according to the kind and strength of that love. But to make
clear that they are shut up, something shall first be said about the
interiors belonging to the human mind. Man has a spiritual mind, a
rational mind, a natural mind, and a sensual mind. By means of the
spiritual mind man is in heaven and is a heaven in its least form. By
means of the natural mind he is in the world and is a world in its least
form. Heaven in man communicates with the world in him by means of the
rational mind, and with the body by means of the sensual mind. The
sensual mind is the first to be opened in man after his birth; after
that the natural mind, and as he seeks to become intelligent the
rational mind, and as he seeks to become wise the spiritual mind. And
at length, as man becomes wise the spiritual mind becomes to him as the
head, and the natural mind as the body, and the rational mind serves as
a neck to join this to the head, and then the sensual mind becomes like
the sole of the foot.

In little children the Lord so arranges all