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 material body, and appearing in the other world, in the spirit: and the spirit is the mind in forn. Such, then, is the spirit of the bad rich man, as he enters the eternal world. And what now must be. his outward lot, if such be his inward state? A condition corresponding, certainly; for, as before shown,—in a spiritual world, place is but the effect of state of mind, and, is derived from it. He has no heaven within—then, how can he have a heaven without? Though the Lord, in His infinite mercy, should even suffer him to enter amongst the angels—would that be heaven to him? would he by that means be in heaven? No! Has he not a hell in his own bosom? While the worms of every evil passion are gnawing at his vitals, can he have any enjoyment from outward things however beautiful, from scenery however grand—even if such scenes could continue around him? But they could not continue; for the evil within him would at once begin to form infernal scenery around him. Nor could the angels remain in his society;—they could not endure it, any more than doves could endure a hawk in their midst. They would flee from him, for his look of hardness and selfishness and cunning would terrify and torment them: and he would flee from them, for their light and glory would strike him blind. There is no heaven for such a man. He can have no existence at all, but amongst his like; and that must be—hell; for such wicked spirits associated together make hell.

Such—as both reason and Revelation attest—such must be the sad lot of the man, who has not lived in obedience to the Divine commandments, but has passed his life in deeds of avarice, selfishness, and sin.