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 life. The three heavens differ in their degrees of love and wisdom, in their modes of thought, in their organizations, their uses, their clothing, their houses, their external scenery and surroundings; each higher degree being more perfect, beautiful and glorious than those beneath it.

And we, poor denizens of earth, live far below them all! If we turn from the guiding light of revelation and question the cold and beautiful Nature before us about the life after death and the heaven for which we yearn, we are answered only by the blinding glare of the sun, the murmur of the sea, the wail of the wind, the birth and death of the flowers, the shifting colors of the cloud, the blue dome with its unrevealing face and the far-off smile of the silent stars!

Immersed in our sensual and corporeal states; limited in thought and perception by the barriers of time and space; scarcely developed in our most advanced condition to a rational grasp of spiritual things; unable to form more than a vague and pleasing idea of the heaven nearest to our earth; the spiritual and celestial states of thought and affection are almost incomprehensible to our souls; and our ideas of the worlds produced by them as