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 Lord, forms the Celestial plane of the mind. Love is the dominant, active element in the Celestial; wisdom is dominant in the Spiritual; and the outward harmony and order of love and wisdom are supreme in the Spiritual-Natural. Those who attain only the development of the Spiritual-Natural, are prepared for and enter at death the Spiritual-Natural heaven. Those who have added to this the opening of the Spiritual plane of the mind enter the Spiritual heaven. Those who pass through the development of these two planes, and in whom the Celestial plane is opened, finally enter the third or the Celestial heaven. The three degrees may be compared respectively to heat, light, and their effects in nature; or to the natural sense, the spiritual sense, and the celestial sense of the Word. Love which is spiritual heat, characterizes the Celestial; wisdom, which is spiritual light, the Spiritual; and the operation or effects of these in the ultimates of the spiritual world, causing outward order and harmony, distinguish the Spiritual-Natural. These three planes may be illustrated respectively by three classes of people; one sees only things, another sees laws governing things, and another has his mind opened to the love that is within the governing law. Hence it is concluded that the Spiritual Mind is composed of