5111. That the evil can be purged in this way, and as a result their inner regions be closed, is because as a result they thus turn themselves to their own loves. Wherever they turn themselves, their loves are before them there where they are, however far they roam. They cannot be turned in a different direction except by the Lord alone, and by this return to their earlier state, which it has been granted me to see several times. Nevertheless, they are let back into their own state, and they relapse into it of themselves because they love the things that belong to their state, and they keep on both tending and inclining toward them.
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