524.  I. THE EVIL IN WHICH EVERY ONE IS PRINCIPLED, IS IMPUTED TO HIM AFTER DEATH; AND SO ALSO THE GOOD.  To make this proposition in some degree evident, it shall be considered according to the following arrangement:  1.  That every one has a life peculiar to himself. 2.  That every one’s life remains with him after death. 3.  That to an evil person is then imputed the evil of his life, and to a good person the good of his life.  As to the first point,—­that everyone has a life peculiar to himself, thus distinct from that of another, it is well known; for there is a perpetual variety, and there is not any thing the same as another, consequently everyone has his own peculiar principle.  This is evident from men’s faces, the faces of no two persons being absolutely alike, nor can there be two alike to eternity:  the reason of this is, because there are no two minds (animi) alike, and faces are derived from minds; for the face, as it is said, is a type of the mind, and the mind derives its origin and form from the life.  Unless a man (homo) had a life peculiar to himself, as he has a mind and a face peculiar to himself, he would not have any life after death, separate from that of another; yea, neither would there be a heaven, for heaven consists of perpetual varieties; its form is derived solely from the varieties of souls and minds arranged into such an order as to make a one; and they make a one from the One, whose life is in every thing therein as the soul is in a man:  unless this was the case, heaven would be dispersed, because form would be dissolved.  The One from whom all things have life, and from whom form coheres, is the Lord.  In general every form consists of various things, and is such as is their harmonic co-ordination and arrangement to a one:  such is the human form; and hence it is that a man, consisting of so many members, viscera, and organs, is not sensible of any thing in himself and from himself but as of a one.  As to the SECOND point,—­that every one’s life remains with him after death, it is known in the church from these passages of the Word:  The Son of Man will come and will then render to every one according to his deeds, Matt. xvi. 27. I saw the books open; and all were judged according to their works, Rev. xx. 12. In the day of judgement God will render to every one according to his works, Rom. ii. 6; 2 Cor. v. 10.  The works, according to which it will be rendered to every one, are the life, because the life does the works, and they are according to the life.  As I have been permitted for several years to be associated with angels, and to converse with the deceased, I can testify for certain, that every one is then examined as to the quality of the life which he has led, and that the life which he has contracted in the world abides with him to eternity.  I have conversed with those who lived ages ago, whose life I have been acquainted with from history, and I have known it to be like the description