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Since it has been granted me to be in the spiritual world and in the natural world at the same time, and thus to see each world and each sun, I am obliged by my conscience to communicate these things. For of what use is knowledge unless it is communicated? What is it, but like collecting and storing up riches in a casket, and only looking at them occasionally and counting them over, without any intention of applying them to use? Spiritual avarice is nothing else. Inter-relationship of the Soul and Body 18:2

The person of the church today knows scarcely anything about heaven and hell or about his life after death, although all these matters are set forth and described in the Word. Yet many of those born within the church refuse to believe in them, saying in their hearts, "Who has come from that world and told us?" Lest, therefore, such a spirit of denial, which especially prevails with those who have much worldly wisdom, should also infect and corrupt the simple in heart and the simple in faith, it has been granted me to associate with angels and to talk with them person to person. It has also been granted to me to see what is in the heavens and what is in the hells, and this for thirteen years. Now from what I have seen and heard it has been granted me to describe these, in the hope that ignorance may in this way be enlightened and unbelief dissipated. Heaven and Hell 1