MASTER

The material substance only ceaseth; viz., the four Elements, the 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.

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