71. The nature of the first heaven can now be deduced from what has been said above. It is also to be inferred from the following fact: those who have not become spiritual by acknowledging the Divine, leading good lives and having an affection for truth, but still keep up the appearance of being spiritual by their outward piety, talking about Divine matters, and by honest dealings for self-regarding or worldly motives - these rush into the most wicked actions their desires suggest, as soon as they are left to the guidance of their own internals. Nothing stops them, not the fear of God, nor faith nor conscience. That was why the inhabitants of the first heaven, as soon as they were exposed to their inner natures, were seen to be linked with the hells.