e Sun,
Moon and Stars. And then the inward world will be wholly visible and
manifest. But whatsoever hath been wrought by the Will or Spirit of Man
in this World's time, whether evil or good shall there separate itself
in a spiritual matter, either into the Eternal Light or into the Eternal
Darkness. For that which is born from each Will penetrateth and passeth
again into that which is like itself. And there the Darkness is called
Hell, and is an eternal forgetting of all Good, and the Light is called
the Kingdom of God, and is an eternal joy in and to the Saints, who
continually glorify and praise God, for having delivered them from the
torment of evil.
The last Judgment is a kindling of the Fire both of God's Love and
Anger, in which the matter of every substance perisheth, and each Fire
shall attract into itself its own, that is, the substance which is like
itself. Thus God's Fire of Love will draw into itself what is wrought in
the Anger of God in Darkness, and consume the false substance; and then
there will remain only the painful, aching Will in its own proper
nature, image, and figure.
SCHOLAR
With what matter and form shall the human Body rise?
MASTER
It is sown a natural gross and elementary Body; yet in this gross Body
there is a subtle Power and Virtue. As in the Earth also there is a
subtle good Virtue, which is like the Sun, and is one and the same with
the Sun, which also did in the beginning of time spring and proceed out
of the Divine Power and Virtue, whence all the good Virtue of the Body
is likewise derived. This good Virtue of the mortal Body shall come
again and live for ever in a kind of transparent crystalline material
property, in spiritual flesh and blood; as shall return also the good
Virtue of the Earth, for the Earth, likewise shall become crystalline,
and the Divine Light shine in everything that hath a being, essence, or
substance. And as the gross Earth shall perish and never return, so also
the gross flesh of Man shall perish and not live for ever. But all
Things must appear before the Judgment, and in the Judgment be separated
by the Fire; yea, both the Earth, and also the ashes of the human Body.
For when God shall once move the spiritual World, every Spirit shall
attract its spiritual substance to itself. A good Spirit and Soul shall
draw to itself its own substance, and an evil one its evil substance.
SCHOLAR
Shall we not rise again with our visible bodies, and live i
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