it is written. _The Kingdom of God cometh not with observation, neither
shall they say Lo here! or Lo there! For behold the Kingdom of God is
within you._ And which soever of the two, that is, either Heaven or
Hell, is manifested in it, in that the Soul standeth.

Here Junius said to his Master: This is hard to understand. Doth it not
enter into Heaven or Hell, as a man entereth into a house; or as one
goeth through a hole or casement into an unknown place; so goeth it not
into another world?

The Master spoke and said: No, there is verily no such kind of entering
in; forasmuch as Heaven and Hell are every where, being universally
co-extended.

How is that possible? said the Scholar. What, can Heaven and Hell be
here present, where we are now sitting? And if one of them might, can
you ever make me believe that ever both should be here together?

Then spoke the Master in this manner: I have said that Heaven is
everywhere present and it is true. For God is in Heaven; and God is
everywhere. I have said also that Hell must be in like manner
everywhere. For the _Wicked One_, who is the Devil, is in Hell, and the
whole World, as the Apostle hath taught us, lyeth in the _Wicked One_,
or the _Evil One_; which is as much as to say, not only that the Devil
is in the World, but that the World is in the Devil; and if in the
Devil, then in Hell too, because he is there. So Hell therefore is
everywhere, as well as Heaven; which is the thing that was to be proved.

The Scholar, startled hereat, said: Pray make me to understand this.

To whom the Master: Understand then what Heaven is. It is but the
_turning in of the Will to the Love of God_. Wheresoever thou findest
God manifesting himself in Love, there thou findest Heaven, without
travelling for it so much as one foot. And by this understand also what
Hell is and where it is. I say unto thee it is but the _turning in of
the Will into the wrath of God_. Wheresoever the Anger of God doth more
or less manifest itself, there certainly is more or less of Hell, in
whatsoever place it be. So that it is but the turning in of thy will
either into his Love, or into his Anger; and thou art accordingly either
in Heaven or in Hell. Mark it well. And this now cometh to pass in this
present life, whereof St Paul speaking saith, _Our conversation is in
Heaven_. And the Lord Christ saith also, _My sheep hear my voice, and I
know them, and they follow me, and I give them the Eternal Life, and