Evil with man is hell with him; for it is the same thing whether we
say evil or hell. And as a man is the cause of his own evil, therefore
he, and not the Lord, also leads himself into hell. So far is the Lord
from leading man into hell, that He delivers him from it as far as a
man does not will and love to be in his own evil.
All a man's will and love remains with him after death. He who wills
and loves evil in the world, wills and loves the same evil in the
other life; and then he no longer suffers himself to be withdrawn from
it. This is the reason that a man who is in evil is bound fast to hell
and is actually there, too, in spirit, and after death he desires
nothing more than to be where his evil is. After death, therefore, a
man casts himself into hell, and not the Lord.
--_Heaven and Hell, n._ 547