646# 良善，也就是仁义；以及邪恶，也就是不义，在死后都被归算于人；这一点由我关于那些从此世进入彼世之人的命运的一切经验，已向我作了见证。每个人在那里停留数日之后，都会被察验其品质如何，也就是他在前一世界中就宗教而言是怎样的人。察验完毕后，察验者便将此报告给天堂，于是那人就被迁至与自己相似者那里，也就是归到自己人中；归算就是这样完成的。
良善的归算临到所有在天堂的人，邪恶的归算临到所有在地狱的人；这一点从主对二者的安排中向我显明。整个天堂按对良善之爱的各样差别被安排为众社会；整个地狱也按对邪恶之爱的各样差别被安排。同样，地上的教会也由主如此安排，因为教会对应天堂；教会的宗教就是良善。
此外，你可以询问任何一个具有宗教、同时具有理性的人，不论他来自世界这一方，还是另外两方，他认为谁将进入天堂，谁将进入地狱；他们都会一致回答：行善的人进天堂，作恶的人进地狱。再者，谁不知道，凡真正为人的人，都是因人的良善而爱一个人、一个多人组成的团体、一座城、一个国家呢？不仅人是如此，就连走兽，甚至无生命之物，如房屋、财产、田地、园圃、树木、森林、土地，甚至金属和石头，人也是因其善与其用而爱它们；善与用本为一体。那么，主岂不更是因人的善而爱人，因教会的善而爱教会吗？
646# 死后，良善，即仁爱，和邪恶，即罪孽，会被归算给人，这一事实已经通过我对那些从这个世界进入另一个世界的人之命运的一切经历向我证明了。死后，每个人在灵人界呆了几天后，都会接受检查，以确定他的性格或性质，尤其在之前的世界，他在宗教方面是什么样，或说从宗教的角度来看，他是何性质。这一切完成后，检查者向天堂报告结果，然后这个人就被转移到他的同类，也就是他自己人那里。归算通过这种方式实现。对天堂里的所有人来说，有一种良善的归算，对地狱里的所有人来说，有一种邪恶的归算，这一点从主对两者的有序安排向我清楚显明了。整个天堂都照着各种各样的良善之爱而排列成各个社群，而整个地狱则照着各种各样的邪恶之爱而排列成各个社群。主以同样方式安排地上的教会，因为它对应于天堂。教会的宗教就是教会的良善。此外，你若愿意，就问问任何一个既有宗教信仰，也有理性的人，无论他来自地球的这个地区还是那个地区，他认为谁会上天堂，谁会下地狱；他会始终回答说，行善的上天堂，作恶的下地狱。再者，谁不知道，每个真正的人都是因其良善而爱一个人，一个集体或社区，一个国家或王国？事实上，不仅是人，他甚至还因其良善和功用而重视动物和无生命的东西，如房子、财产、田地、花园、树木、森林、土地，最后金属和石头，因为良善和功用为一。那么为什么主就不应该因其良善而爱人和教会呢？
646. All my experience of what happens to people as they cross from this world to the next has testified to me that after death we are assigned spiritual credit or blame based on whether our actions were loving and good or wicked and evil. After our first few days in that world, we are all examined to determine our quality - that is, the quality of our religious life in the physical world. The examiners then report their findings to heaven, and we are transferred to those like ourselves - to "our people," if you will. This is how the assigning is actually carried out.
The fact that good actions were what saved all who are in heaven, and evil actions were what condemned all who are in hell has become clear to me from observing the way each area is organized by the Lord. The entirety of heaven is arranged into communities according to all the varieties of love for doing what is good; the entirety of hell is arranged into hordes according to all the varieties of love for doing what is evil. The Lord arranges the church on earth in a similar way, because the church corresponds to heaven. The church's religious practice is the doing of what is good.
[2] In fact, choose any rational, religious people you wish from anywhere on the planet and ask them this: "What type of person goes to heaven and what type of person goes to hell?"
They will all answer the same way: "Those who do what is good will go to heaven. Those who do what is evil will go to hell. "
As we all must surely know, the amount of love a true human being has for others, whether they are individuals, groups, cities, or even whole countries, depends on how good their actions are. The same applies to things that are outside of the human realm as well. We love animals and even inanimate things like houses, possessions, fields, gardens, trees, woods, lands, and even metals and types of stone based on how good and useful they are. (How good they are is exactly the same as how useful they are.) Why then would the Lord's love for people and the church not depend on how good their actions are?
646. After death good, which is charity, and evil, which is wickedness, are imputed to people, as has been proved to me by all my experience regarding the fate of those who pass from this world to the next. Everyone after a few days there has his character examined, which includes what his attitude to religion was in his previous world. When the examination is concluded, the examiners make a report to heaven, and the person is then sent to join people like him, so he joins his own. That is how imputation works. All in heaven have good imputed to them, all in hell evil; this is made plain to me by the way both heaven and hell are ordered by the Lord. The whole of heaven is arranged into communities answering to all the varieties of the love for good, the whole of hell into communities answering to all the varieties of the love for evil. The Lord's arrangement of the church on earth is similar, since it corresponds to heaven. Good is its religion.
[2] Moreover, ask anyone you like - from this or the other two continents - who is endowed with religious feeling and also with powers of reasoning, who he thinks will go to heaven and who to hell. They will all agree in their answer, that those who do good go to heaven and those who do evil go to hell. Again, who does not know that every truly human being loves a person, a group of many people, a city or a kingdom because of the good in them? In fact the same applies not only to people, but also to animals, and to inanimate objects like houses, possessions, estates, gardens, trees, woods, land, even metals and stones. All these are loved for their goodness and for the purpose they serve; good and purpose are one. Why then, must not the Lord love mankind and the church for the good in them?
646. That good, which is charity, and evil, which is iniquity, are imputed after death, has been proven to me by all my experience relating to the lot of those who pass from this to the other world. Everyone, after he has waited there for some days, is examined to ascertain his character, that is, what he was in respect to religion in the former world. When this has been done, the examiners report the result to heaven, and the man is then transferred to his like, that is, to his own. Thus is imputation effected. That to all in heaven there is an imputation of good, and to all in hell an imputation of evil, was made clear to me from the arrangement of both by the Lord. The entire heaven is arranged in societies according to all the varieties of the love of good, and the entire hell according to all the varieties of the love of evil. The church on earth is arranged by the Lord in like manner, for it corresponds to heaven. Its religion is its good. Moreover, ask anyone you please who is endowed with religion and also with reason, belonging either to this quarter of the globe or one of the others, who he believes will go to heaven, and who to hell; and they will answer unanimously that those who do good will go to heaven, and those who do evil to hell. Again, does not everyone know that every true man loves a man, an assembly of many men, a state, or a kingdom, because of their goodness; and not only men, but even beasts and inanimate things, such as houses, possessions, fields, gardens, trees, forests, lands, and finally metals and stones, because of their goodness and use? Goodness and use are one. Why then should not the Lord love man and the church because of their goodness?
646. Good which is charity, and evil which is iniquity, are imputed after death. This is a fact that has been proved to me by all my experience of the lot of those who pass from this world into the next. Every one, after some days in the world of spirits, is examined as to his nature, particularly his nature from the point of view of religion, in the former world. When this has been done the examiners make their report to heaven and then he is transferred to the company of those like himself, thus to his own, and in this way imputation is effected. There is an imputation of good to all who are in heaven and an imputation of evil to all who are in hell. This was made clear to me from the orderly arrangement of each by the Lord. For the whole heaven is arranged into societies according to all the varieties of the love of good, and all hell according to all the varieties of the love of evil. Similarly, the Church on earth, as it corresponds to heaven, is arranged in order by the Lord, good being its religion. Moreover, ask any one you please who is religious and at the same time rational, either in this or in one of the other two regions of the globe, who he supposes will go to heaven and who to hell; and he will invariably reply that those who do good will go to heaven, and those who do evil will go to hell. Besides, who does not know that every true man loves a person, a community, a state, or a kingdom from the point of view of the good that is in them? Indeed, for the same reason he values animals, and also inanimate things as houses, possessions, fields, gardens, trees, woods and lands; and even metals and stones from their goodness and use, for good and use are one. Why, then, should not the Lord love man and the Church from good?
646. Quod bonum quod est charitas, et malum quod est iniquitas, post mortem imputentur, ex omni experientia de sorte illorum, qui ex hoc Mundo in alterum transeunt, testatum mihi factum est; quisque postquam aliquot dies ibi moratus est, exploratur qualis est, ita qualis fuit in priori Mundo quoad religionem, quo facto, exploratores renuntiant hoc ad Coelum, et tunc transfertur ad similes, ita ad suos; ita fit Imputatio. Quod imputatio boni sit omnibus qui in Coelo sunt, et imputatio mali omnibus qui in inferno, patuit mihi ex ordinatione utriusque a Domino; Universum Coelum ordinatum est in Societates secundum omnes varietates amoris boni, et Universum Infernum secundum omnes varietates amoris mali. Similiter ordinatur Ecclesia in terris a Domino, haec enim correspondet Coelo; ejus religio est bonum.
[2] Praeterea quaere quemcumque libet religione et simul ratione praeditum, sit ex hac aut ex binis alteris partibus Orbis, quem credit venturum in Coelum, et quem in Infernum, et respondebunt consentienter, quod illi qui bonum faciunt in Coelum, et quod qui malum in infernum. Insuper quis non scit, quod omnis verus homo amet hominem, Caetum ex pluribus, Civitatem, et Regnum ex bono eorum, imo non modo homines, sed etiam bestias, et quoque inanimata, ut domus, possessiones, agros, hortos, arbores, sylvas, terras; imo metalla et lapides, ex bonitate et usu illorum, bonum et usus unum sunt; quid non Dominus amaret hominem et Ecclesiam ex bono.