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the unbelievers either." 1 " No, we shall give you nothing, 

 for God has prohibited you from having anything. Yes- 

 terday you were laughing at us, to-day we laugh at you : 

 as God declares in his eternal word, 4 If you mock at us, we 

 will in our turn mock at you, as ye have mocked at us.'" 2 

 This illustration of the enjoyments of Paradise has been 

 made in very brief and comprehensive language, to serve 

 as an example, but it is impossible by any similitude to 

 give an idea of what it is to be separated from the contem- 

 plation of the beauty of the Lord. For whoever has but 

 once experienced the delight of being near to God, and 

 has enjoyed the vision of the beauty of the Lord, would 

 perish if he should be for one moment separated from it. 

 Even the last and least person who quits hell will receive 

 a mansion from the Lord God which is equal to ten of these 

 worlds. But we do not mean to say ten worlds in surface 

 or in amount by number and weight, but ten worlds in 

 value and in the beauty they display and the pleasure they 

 afford. 



Having now become acquainted with the three kinds of 

 spiritual torment, know, O student of the divine mysteries, 

 that these spiritual fires of which we have been speaking, 

 are more severe than the fires which burn the body. The 

 body does not itself perceive pain, and until pain reaches 

 from the body to the spirit, it does not make a trace or 

 impression. If, then, the anguish that is occasioned to 

 the spirit through the channel of the body is so agonizing, 

 imagine how intense must burn the fire of that anguish 

 which has its origin in the centre of the soul. The pain 

 which any thing suffers is occasioned by the excess of 

 something contrary to the nature and necessities of its 

 constitution. 



1 S. 7 : 48. 

 3 S. 11: 40. 



