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 who would pass from Lazarus to Dives "can not."

The Limbus is the ultimate to all the planes of the Internal Mind. It has been shown that degrees of height are in fulness and power in their ultimates; and since interior things of successively higher discrete degrees are simultaneously present in their ultimates, coexisting there and acting therewith, it is evident that any plane of the mind that has not an ultimate fixed in the Limbus, can have no power, and hence can not come to human consciousness.

The creative power does not stop at intermediate degrees and there form permanent things, for there would be no containing vessel or basis; but creative power proceeds to the ultimate, where it is in its fulness and power, and thence forms. Procreations can take place therefore only upon the earth, where formations commence. The end of creation is the human race; and this end, by means of the spiritual world as cause, continues from the Creator to the natural world, the effect; and the end reappears in the effect by the earth being the seminary of heaven through the procreation of human beings. From the foregoing it may be seen that procreations of the human race can take place only upon the ultimate plane of an earth, and that all the