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 angels of heaven were once people upon an earth from which the Limbus must be taken. They gained the "Father's house" by doing "His commandments," which are the "sum" of the entire laws of the operation of the saving powers of His Spirit. This is in accord with the Word. When John saw the resplendent angel who ministered at the throne, he fell down to worship him. But the angel was only a man, like John, made perfect by obeying the teachings of the Word. So he said, "See thou do it not, for I am thy fellow servant, and of thy brethren, the prophets, and of them that keep the sayings of this Book: worship God."

They who lay a basis in the Limbus for the degree of life in which the natural angels are, will come into the life of the angels of the Spiritual-Natural heaven. They can advance on that plane without limitation, but they can not be sustained in a more interior degree of life, without preparation. Likewise of the spiritual degree of angelic life. But those who, through the fulfilment of the law and the finishing of the "Father's business," enter in this world into the love of the Lord as a ruling element, thereby fixing the ultimate of celestial life in the Limbus, are raised after death to the celestial degree of angelic life, and they are forever sustained