When corn is cut down and is lying on the ground, and is
afterward put into the granary, it is the very same corn as had
grown up to full maturity in the earth. So also the souls in
the granary above are the very same souls as had grown up to
maturity in heaven on earth. When they are transferred to heaven
above, they are not tares which had been cut down on earth, and
which somehow in the process of cutting had been transformed
into corn or wheat. Unless wheat will grow up as wheat in the
earth, and be harvested as wheat, it will not turn into wheat
in the act of cutting, or while it is being removed to the
granary.--ALEXANDER MILLER, “Heaven and Hell Here.”
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