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In this place we are dealing with worlds in particular, and will therefore defer comment[pg 116]upon the remainder of the first 5 verses of St. John's gospel:

We have now seen that the earth is composed of three worlds which interpenetrate one another so that it is perfectly true when Christ said that “heaven is within you” or, the translation should rather have beenamong you. We have also seen that of these three realms two are subdivided. It has also been explained that each division serves a great purpose in the unfoldment of various forms of life which dwell in each of these worlds, and we may note in conclusion, that the lower regions of the Desire World constitute what the Catholic religion calls Purgatory, a place where the evil of a past life is transmuted to good, usable by the spirit as conscience in later lives. The higher regions of the Desire World are the first Heavenwhere all the good a man has done is assimilated by the spirit as soul power. The Region of concrete Thought is the second Heaven, where, as already said, the spirit prepares its future environment on earth, and the Region of abstract Thought is the third Heaven,[pg 117]but as Paul said, it is scarcely lawful tospeak about that.