As this is a question not of judgement but of experience, and as experience herein has been granted me by Consociation with angels and spirits, I will here adduce it; but yet so that reason may assent thereto.
"The Delights of Wisdom Pertaining to Conjugial Love"
Emanuel Swedenborg
It frequently happens in the world of spirits, that friends meet after death, and recollect their friendships in the former world, and on such occasions believe that they shall live on terms of friendship as formerly; but when their Consociation, which is only of the external affections, is perceived in heaven, a separation ensues according to their internal; and in this case some are removed from the place of their meeting into the north, some into the west, and each to such a distance from the other, that they can no longer see or know each other; for in the places appointed for them to remain at, their faces are changed so as to become the image of their internal affections.
"The Delights of Wisdom Pertaining to Conjugial Love"
Emanuel Swedenborg
I said, "The following: 1. That in every part of the Word there is a spiritual sense corresponding to the natural sense; and that by means of the former sense the men of the church have conjunction with the Lord and Consociation with angels; and that the sanctity of the Word resides therein.
"The Delights of Wisdom Pertaining to Conjugial Love"
Emanuel Swedenborg