s of years they live, the more
delightful and happy is the spring to which they attain. Women who
have died old and worn out with age, and have lived in faith in the
Lord and in charity to the neighbor, come, with the succession of
years, more and more into the flower of youth and early womanhood, and
into a beauty exceeding every idea of beauty ever formed through the
sight. In a word, to grow old in heaven is to grow young.

--_Heaven and Hell, n._ 414

HELL

"If I make my bed in hell; behold, Thou art there."

--_Psalm_, CXXXIX, 8

EVIL IS HELL

Evil with man is hell with him; for it is the same thing whether we
say evil or hell. And as a man is the cause of his own evil, therefore
he, and not the Lord, also leads himself into hell. So far is the Lord
from leading man into hell, that He delivers him from it as far as a
man does not will and love to be in his own evil.

All a man's will and love remains with him after death. He who wills
and loves evil in the world, wills and loves the same evil in the
other life; and then he no longer suffers himself to be withdrawn from
it. This is the reason that a man who is in evil is bound fast to hell
and is actually there, too, in spirit, and after death he desires
nothing more than to be where his evil is. After death, therefore, a
man casts himself into hell, and not the Lord.

--_Heaven and Hell, n._ 547

EVIL AND PUNISHMENT

All evil bears its punishment with it. Evil spirits are punished
because the fear of punishment is the one means of subduing evils in
this state. Exhortation no longer avails, nor instruction, nor fear of
the law nor fear for one's reputation; for now the spirit acts from a
nature which cannot be coerced or broken except by punishment.

--_Heaven and Hell, n._ 509

It is a law in the other life that no one shall become worse than he
had been in the world.

--_Arcana Coelestia, n._ 6559

GOD WILLS THE DAMNATION OF NONE

If men could be saved by immediate mercy, all would be saved, even
those in hell; and indeed there would be no hell, because the Lord is
mercy itself and good itself. Therefore it is contrary to His Divine
Nature to say that He can save all immediately, and does not save
them. We know from the Word that the Lord wills the salvation of all
and the damnation of none.

--_Heaven and Hell, n._ 524

MASTER PASSIONS OF HELL

Love of self and love of the world