523.  THE LORD SAITH, JUDGE NOT, THAT YE BE NOT CONDEMNED, Matt. vii. 1; which cannot in any wise mean judgement respecting any one’s moral and civil life in the world, but respecting his spiritual and celestial life.  Who does not see, that unless a man was allowed to judge respecting the moral life of those who live with him in the world, society would perish?  What would society be if there were no public judicature, and if every one did not exercise his judgement respecting another?  But to judge what is the quality of the interior mind, or soul, thus what is the quality of any one’s spiritual state, and thence what his lot is after death, is not allowed; for that is known only to the Lord:  neither does the Lord reveal this till after the person’s decease, to the intent that every one may act freely in whatever he does, and thereby that good or evil may be from him, and thus be in him, and that thence he may live to himself and live his own to eternity.  The reason why the interiors of the mind, which are kept hid in the world, are revealed after death is, because this is of importance and advantage to the societies into which the man then comes; for in them all are spiritual.  That those interiors are then revealed, is plain from these words of the Lord:  There is nothing concealed, which shall not be revealed, or hidden, which shall not be known:  therefore whatsoever things ye have said in darkness, shall be heard in light:  and that which ye have spoken into the ear in closets shall be preached on the house-tops, Luke xii. 2, 3.  A common judgement, as this for instance,—­“If you are such in internals as you appear to be in externals, you will be saved or condemned,” is allowed; but a particular judgement, as this, for instance,—­“You are such in internals, therefore you will be saved or condemned,” is not allowed.  Judgement concerning the spiritual life of a man, or the internal life of the soul, is meant by the imputation which is here treated of.  Can any human being know and decide who is in heart an adulterer, and who a conjugial partner?  And yet the thoughts of the heart, which are the purposes of the will, judge every one.  But we will explain this subject in the following order:  I. The evil in which every one is principled is imputed to him after death; and so also the good. II. The transference of the good of one person into another is impossible. III. Imputation, if by it is meant such transference, is a frivolous term. IV. Evil is imputed to every one according to the quality of his will and his understanding; in like manner good. V. Thus adulterous love is imputed to every one. VI. In like manner conjugial love. We proceed to the explanation of each article.