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 you would discover that in each sphere, a different influx of ideas and perceptions took place in your mind. You would be intromited into states of intelligence and wisdom ineffable. All the learning of all the men in our world would be a trifle to it. It would not be wisdom acquired by your own efforts, but it would come instantly into your mind with the light of the sphere into which you entered. Changes of light in heaven are changes of thought.

If the heat of your life, the animal heat of your spirit, if we may use the term, did not correspond to the light into which you were elevated, that light would soon fade away and all the lightning flash of wisdom it had brought would disappear and be remembered only as an unspeakable dream. This occurred to Paul, the apostle to the Gentiles, when he was elevated to the third heaven.

In this world where heat and light may be separated in a measure, an evil man may possess much spiritual knowledge, and a good man may live in such mental darkness that he believes the greatest absurdities as sincerely as if they were rational truths. In the other life where the interiors and exteriors of the mind are made to correspond, this is rectified. We only see and understand finally