Thus of their own volition, souls proceed into heaven, into hell. Good is positive. Evil is merely privative, not absolute. It is like cold, which is the privation of heat. All evil is so much death or nonentity.
Benevolence is absolute and real.
So much benevolence as a man hath, so much life hath he. For all things proceed out of this same spirit, which is differently named love, justice, temperance, in its different applications, just as the ocean receives different names on the several shores which it washes. All things proceed out of the same spirit, and all things conspire with it. Whilst a man seeks good ends, he is strong by the whole strength of nature. The perception of this law of laws always awakens in the mind a sentiment which we call the religious sentiment, and which makes our highest happiness.