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 ing to the archetypal images, ideas or patterns existing in the Divine Mind? Is it not reasonable that the surroundings of spirits, who are images and likenesses of God, should be created in a finite manner by the same law which regulates the infinite operations of the Creator?

We can see the beautiful shadow of this same law even in the actions of our minds upon dead matter. What are the changes which civilized man has impressed on the face of nature but projections of his own will and understanding? What are statues and paintings and songs and the splendors of architecture, but the inner lives of the artists wrought out before us into visible shapes?

Heaven is so boundless because the varieties of good affections and thoughts are infinite. Heaven is so sublime and beautiful because the affections and thoughts of angels are so pure and holy. Heaven is continually growing in majesty, power and glory, because the affections and thoughts of its inhabitants are ever expanding, and becoming more and more receptive of the divine love and the divine wisdom.

Each soul, therefore, is responsible for its heaven or its hell. Its own organic structure, its own emotional and intellectual states determine where