Anne Conway’s view of the spirit has double perspective: magical and moral. From one perspective, everything is capable of becoming more spirit like, that is, more refined then spiritual substance. Everything is capable of extreme goodness. Anne defines evil as a falling away from the perfectionism of God, and understands suffering as a major characteristic of spiritual recovery. She prevents the eternity of hell, for God to punish finite wrong doing with infinite and eternal hell discipline would be clearly unjust and therefore a disagreement of the celestial nature. It is clear that Conway makes this distinction- that spirit and matter are modes of the same substance, and not to be considered as substances themselves- so she can develop
