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.
SCHOLAR
With what matter and form shall the human Body rise?
MASTER
It is sown a natural gross and elementary Body; yet in this gross Body
there is a subtle Power and Virtue. As in the Earth also there is a
subtle good Virtue, which is like the Sun, and is one and the same with
the Sun, which also did in the beginning of time spring and proceed out
of the Divine Power and Virtue, whence all the good Virtue of the Body
is likewise derived. This good Virtue of the mortal Body shall come
again and live for ever in a kind of transparent crystalline material
property, in spiritual flesh and blood; as shall return also the good
Virtue of the Earth, for the Earth, likewise shall become crystalline,
and the Divine Light shine in everything that hath a being, essence, or
substance. And as the gross Earth shall perish and never return, so also
the gross flesh of Man shall perish and not live for ever. But all
Things must appear before the Judgment, and in the Judgment be separated
by the Fire; yea, both the Earth, and also the ashes of the human Body.
For when God shall once move the spiritual World, every Spirit shall
attract its spiritual substance to itself. A good Spirit and Soul shall
draw to itself its own substance, and an evil one its evil substance.
SCHOLAR
Shall we not rise again with our visible bodies, and live in them for
ever?
MASTER
When the visible world perisheth, then all that hath come out of it, and
hath been external, shall perish with it. There shall remain of the
World only the crystalline Nature and Form, and of Man also only the
spiritual Earth, for Man shall be then wholly like the crystalline
World, which as yet is hidden.
SCHOLAR
Shall all then have eternal joy and glorification alike?
MASTER
St Paul saith: In the Resurrection one shall differ from another in
glory, as do the Sun, Moon and Stars. Therefore know that the Blessed
shall indeed all enjoy the divine working in and upon them, but their
virtue and illumination or glory shall be very different according as
they have endured in this life with different measures and degrees of
power and virtue in their painful workings.
SCHOLAR
How shall all people and nations be brought to judgment?
MASTER
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