given of it; and I have heard from the angels, that no one’s life after death can be changed, because it is organized according to his love and consequent works; and that if it were changed the organization would be rent asunder, which cannot be done in any case; also that a change of organization can only be effected in the material body, and is utterly impossible in the spiritual body, after the former has been laid aside.  In regard to the THIRD point—­that to an evil person is then imputed the evil of his life, and to a good person the good of his life, it is to be observed, that the imputation of evil is not accusation, inculpation, and judication, as in the world, but evil itself produces this effect; for the evil freely separate themselves from the good, since they cannot remain together.  The delights of the love of evil are different from those of the love of good; and delights exhale from every one, as odors do from every vegetable in the world; for they are not absorbed and concealed by the material body as heretofore, but flow freely from their loves into the spiritual aura; and as evil is there made sensible as in its odor, it is in this which accuses, fixes blame, and judges,—­not before any judge, but before every one who is principled in good; and this is what is meant by imputation.  Moreover, an evil person chooses companions with whom he may live in his delights; and because he is averse from the delight of good, he spontaneously betakes himself to his own in hell.  The imputation of good is effected in like manner, and takes place with those who in the world have acknowledged that all good in them is from the Lord, and nothing from themselves.  These, after they have been prepared, are let into the interior delights of good, and then there is opened to them a way into heaven, to the society where its homogeneous delights are:  this is effected by the Lord.

525.  II.  THE TRANSFERENCE OF THE GOOD OF ONE PERSON TO ANOTHER IS IMPOSSIBLE.  The evidence of this proposition may also be seen from the following points:  1.  That every man is born in evil. 2.  That he is led into good by regeneration from the Lord. 3.  That this is effected by a life according to his precepts. 4.  Wherefore good, when it is thus implanted, cannot be transferred.  The FIRST point,—­that every man is born in evil, is well known in the church.  It is generally said that this evil is derived hereditarily from Adam; but it is from a man’s parents.  Every one derives from his parents his peculiar temper, which is his inclination.  That this is the case, is evinced both by reason and experience; for the likenesses of parents as to face, genius, and manners, appear extant in their immediate offspring and in their posterity; hence families are known by many, and a judgement is also formed concerning their minds (animi); wherefore the evils which parents themselves have contracted, and which they have transmitted to their offspring, are the evils in which men are born.