body and that which is corporeal, and it is purified and sanctified from
the imaginations of the human world. To be limited to place is a property
of bodies and not of spirits. Place and time surround the body, not the
mind and spirit. Observe that the body of man is confined to a small
place; it covers only two spans of earth. But the spirit and mind of man
travel to all countries and regions--even through the limitless space of
the heavens--surround all that exists, and make discoveries in the exalted
spheres and infinite distances. This is because the spirit has no place;
it is placeless; and for the spirit the earth and the heaven are as one
since it makes discoveries in both. But the body is limited to a place and
does not know that which is beyond it.

For life is of two kinds: that of the body and that of the spirit. The
life of the body is material life, but the life of the spirit expresses
the existence of the Kingdom, which consists in receiving the Spirit of
God and becoming vivified by the breath of the Holy Spirit. Although the
material life has existence, it is pure nonexistence and absolute death
for the holy saints. So man exists, and this stone also exists, but what a
difference between the existence of man and that of the stone! Though the
stone exists, in relation to the existence of man it is nonexistent.

The meaning of eternal life is the gift of the Holy Spirit, as the flower
receives the gift of the season, the air, and the breezes of spring.
Consider: this flower had life in the beginning like the life of the
mineral; but by the coming of the season of spring, of the bounty of the
clouds of the springtime, and of the heat of the glowing sun, it attained
to another life of the utmost freshness, delicacy and fragrance. The first
life of the flower, in comparison to the second life, is death.

The meaning is that the life of the Kingdom is the life of the spirit, the
eternal life, and that it is purified from place, like the spirit of man
which has no place. For if you examine the human body, you will not find a
special spot or locality for the spirit, for it has never had a place; it
is immaterial. It has a connection with the body like that of the sun with
this mirror. The sun is not within the mirror, but it has a connection
with the mirror.

In the same way the world of the Kingdom is sanctified from everything
that can be perceived by the eye or by the other senses--hearing, smell,
taste or