33、必须清楚的明白，对天使来说，是他们的内在决定了他们在某个天堂。因为他们的内在越向主敞开，他们就处在越内层的天堂。每个天使、灵人和世人，内在都分为三个层级。那些打开第三层级的在至内层天堂，打开第二层级的，或仅仅打开第一层级的在中间层天堂或最外层天堂。内在的层级通过接受神性良善和神性真理而被打开。有些人被神性真理感动时，立刻允许它们进入生活，从而进入意志和由此而来的行为中，这些人在至内层或第三层天堂，具体的处所对应着他们出于对真理的情感而接受良善的状况；有些人不允许真理立刻进入意志，而是进入记忆，由此进入理智，再从理智中意愿并行出它们，他们在中间层或第二层天堂；但有些人过着道德的生活，相信一位上帝的存在，但不太关心被教导，他们在最外层或第一层天堂。｛注1｝由此可见，人内在的状态创造天堂，天堂在人的里面而非外面，正如主所教导的，祂说：
上帝的国来到不是眼所能见的，人也不得说，在这里或在那里！看哪，上帝的国就在你们里面。（路加福音17:20-21）
｛注1｝：人生命里面的层级和天堂一样多，死后，这些层级照着他所过的生活方式被打开（3747，9594）。天堂在人里面（3884）。因此，在世上将天堂接入自己里面的人死后就进入天堂（10717）。
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33. 必须清楚的是, 对天使来说, 正是他们的内层使得他们在某个天堂. 因为他们的内层越向主敞开, 他们所处的天堂就越内层. 无论天使, 灵人还是世人, 其内层都分为三个层级. 那些第三层被打开的人在至内层天堂; 那些第二层被打开, 或仅第一层被打开的人在中间层或最外层天堂. 内层通过接受神性良善与神性真理而被打开. 那些被神性真理打动, 并立刻允许它们进入生活, 从而进入意愿, 由此进入行为的人就在至内层或第三层天堂, 照着他们出于对真理的情感而对良善的接受拥有自己的居所. 然而, 那些不允许真理立刻进入意愿, 而是进入记忆, 从而进入理解力, 由此意愿并行出它们的人在中间层或第二层天堂. 但那些生活道德, 相信一个神性存在, 但对接受教导不那么关心的人在最外层或第一层天堂. 由此可以证实, 内层的状态构成天堂, 天堂在每个人里面, 而非在他之外, 正如主所教导的, 祂说:
神的国来到不是眼所能见的, 人也不得说, 看哪, 在这里! 看哪, 在那里! 因为你看, 神的国就在你们里面. (路加福音 17:20, 21)
注: 人里面的生命层级和天堂一样多, 死后, 这些层级照着他的生命被打开(天国的奥秘 3747, 9594节). 天堂在人里面(天国的奥秘 3884节). 因此, 凡在世上将天堂接入自己里面的人死后就会进入天堂(天国的奥秘 10717节).
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33. 我們應當十分清楚地知道, 是天人的內在屬性來決定他們歸屬于哪層天國。他們的內在向著主被打開的層次越深, 所處的天國就越內在。不論天人世人, 其內在皆分為三層。第三層被打開者在內層天, 只是第二層或第一層被打開者則在中層天或外層天。
人的內在通過接收聖善與聖理而被打開。有的人被聖理所感動並立即將此理攝入生活, 從而進入他們的意志, 因此付諸行動, 這樣的人處於內層天或第三層天, 並照著各人回應理, 接受善的程度, 住在不同的地方。而有些人被聖理感動後並不是即刻融理入意志, 而是先存入記憶, 然後進行辨別, 經過這些過程之後才意圖並付諸行動, 這樣的人住在中層天或第二層天。有的人在世過著守禮
的道德生活, 敬天地尊神明, 但無意於明白聖理, 這樣的人住在外層天或第一層天。由此可以得出結論:是內在的狀態構成了天國;天國在人的心內, 而不是身外。這正是主所教導的, 祂說:"上帝的國來到不是眼所能見的。人也不得說:'看哪, 在這裡！看哪, 在那裡！'因為上帝的國就在你們心裡"(路加福音17:20-21)。
33. It needs to be quite clear that it is the inner nature of angels that determines which heaven they are in. The more the deeper levels have been opened, the more inward the heaven they are in. There are three inner levels of every angel and spirit, and of every person here as well. The people whose third level has been opened are in the central heaven, while the people whose second or first only has been opened are in the intermediate or the outmost heaven.
The deeper levels are opened by our acceptance of divine good and divine true gifts. People who are actually affected by divine true gifts and let them directly into their lives - into their intentions and therefore into act - are in the central or third heaven, located there according to their acceptance of what is good in response to truth. People who do not let such gifts directly into their intentions, but into their memory and from there into their discernment, intending and doing them as a result of this process, are in the intermediate or second heaven. People who live good moral lives, though, and believe in the Divine with no particular interest in learning, are in the outmost or first heaven. 1We may therefore conclude that the state of our inner natures is what constitutes heaven and that heaven is within each one of us, not outside us. This is what the Lord teaches in saying,
The kingdom of God does not arrive when we are looking for it, nor do they say, "Here it is," or "There it is." Behold, you have the kingdom of God within you. (Luke 17:20-21)
Footnotes:
1. There are as many levels of life within the human individual as there are heavens, and these are opened after death depending on the way the individual has lived: 3747, 9594. Heaven is within us: 3884. So people who have accepted heaven within themselves in the world enter heaven after death: 10717.
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33. It ought to be clearly understood that with the angels it is their interiors which cause them to be in one heaven or another. For, the more their interiors are open towards the Lord, the more interior is the heaven in which they are. There are three degrees of the interiors with each angel as well as with each spirit, and also with man. Those with whom the third degree has been opened are in the inmost heaven. Those with whom the second degree has been opened, or only the first, are in the middle or in the outermost heaven. The interiors are opened by the reception of Divine Good and Divine Truth. Those who are affected by Divine truths and admit them at once into their life, thus into their will and thence into action, are in the inmost or third heaven, and have their place in accordance with their reception of good from the affection of truth. Those, however, who do not admit truths at once into the will but into the memory and thence into the understanding, and who, from this, will and do them, are in the middle or second heaven. But, those who live morally and believe in a Divine Being, but do not care greatly about being taught, are in the outermost or first heaven. 1From this it can be confirmed that the states of the interiors make heaven and that heaven is within everyone and not outside him, as the Lord teaches when He says,
The kingdom of God cometh not with observation, neither shall they say, Lo here or Lo there, for behold, the kingdom of God ye have within you. Luke 17:20-21.
Footnotes:
1. There are as many degrees of life in man as there are heavens, and these are opened after death in accordance with his life (Arcana Coelestia 3747, 9594).
Heaven is in man (Arcana Coelestia 3884).
Therefore he who has received heaven into himself in the world, comes into heaven after death (Arcana Coelestia 10717).
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33. Let it be clearly understood that with the angels it is the interiors that cause them to be in one heaven or another; for as their interiors are more open to the Lord they are in a more interior heaven. There are three degrees of interiors in each angel and spirit, and also in man. Those in whom the third degree is opened are in the inmost heaven. Those in whom the second degree is opened, or only the first, are in the middle or in the outmost heaven. The interiors are opened by reception of Divine good and Divine truth. Those who are affected by Divine truths and admit them at once into the life, thus into the will and into action therefrom, are in the inmost or third heaven, and have their place there in accordance with their reception of good from affection for truth. Those who do not admit truths at once into the will but into the memory, and thence into the understanding, and from the understanding will and do them, are in the middle or second heaven. But those who live morally and who believe in a Divine, and who care very little about being taught, are in the outmost or first heaven. 1From this it is clear that the states of the interiors are what make heaven, and that heaven is within everyone, and not outside of him; as the Lord teaches when He says:
The kingdom of God cometh not with observation, neither shall they say, Lo here, or Lo there; for behold the kingdom of God ye have within you (Luke 17:20, 21).
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33. Probe sciendum est, quod interiora apud angelos faciant, ut sint in uno aut in altero caelo: quo enim interiora apertiora ad Dominum sunt, eo in interiori caelo sunt. Tres gradus interiorum sunt apud unumquemvis tam angelum quam spiritum, et quoque apud hominem; illi apud quos tertius gradus apertus est, in intimo caelo sunt; apud quos secundus, aut modo primus, illi in medio aut ultimo caelo sunt. Interiora aperiuntur per receptionem Divini boni ac Divini veri: qui afficiuntur Divinis veris, et admittunt illa statim in vitam, ita in voluntatem et inde actum, in intimo seu tertio caelo sunt, et ibi secundum receptionem boni ex affectione veri; qui autem non admittunt illa statim in voluntatem, sed in memoriam et inde intellectum, et ex eo volunt et faciunt ea, illi in medio seu secundo caelo sunt: at qui moraliter vivunt, et credunt Divinum, nec tantopere curant instrui, illi in ultimo seu primo caelo sunt. 1Inde constare potest, quod status interiorum faciant caelum, et quod caelum sit intra unumquemvis, et non extra illum; quod etiam Dominus docet, dicendo,
"Non venit regnum Dei cum observatione, neque dicent, Ecce hic aut ecce illic; ecce enim regnum Dei in vobis habetis"(Luca 17:20-21).
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