obtain more, and causeth it to
be in a perpetual anxious lust after Vanity, according to its former
impression, and in a continual rage of hunger after those sorts of
wickedness and lewdness whereinto it was immersed, being in the flesh.
Fain would it do more evil still, but that it hath not either wherein or
wherewith to effect the same, and therefore it doth perform this only
_in itself_. All is not literally transacted, as if it were outward; and
so the ungodly is tormented by those Furies which are in his own mind,
and begotten upon himself by himself. For he is verily become his own
Devil and Tormentor; and that by which he sinned here, when the Shadow
of this World is passed away, abideth still with him in the impression,
and is made his prison and his Hell. But this hellish hunger and thirst
cannot be fully manifested in the Soul, till the Body, which ministered
to the Soul that it lusted after, and with which the Soul was so
bewitched, as to doat thereupon, and pursue all its cravings, be
stripped off from it.

I perceive then, said _Junius_ to his Master, that the Soul, having
played the wanton with the Body in all voluptuousness, and served the
lusts thereof during this life, retaineth still the very same
inclinations and affections which it had before, then when it hath no
opportunity or capacity to satisfy them longer; and that when this
cannot be, there is then Hell opened in that Soul, which had been shut
up in it before by means of the outward Life in the Body, and of the
Light of this World. Do I rightly understand?

_Theophorus_ said: It is very rightly understood by you. Go on.

On the other hand (said he) I clearly perceive by what I have heard,
that Heaven cannot but be in a loving Soul which is possessed of God,
and hath subdued thereby the Body to the obedience of the Spirit in all
things, and perfectly immersed itself into the Will and Love of God. And
when the Body dyeth, and the Soul is hence redeemed from the Earth, it
is now evident to me that the Life of God, which was hidden in it, will
display itself gloriously, and Heaven consequently be then manifested.
But, notwithstanding, if there be not a local Heaven besides and a local
Hell, I am still at a loss where to place no small part of the Creation,
if not the greatest. For where must all the intellectual inhabitants of
it abide?

In their own Principle, answered the Master, whether it be of Light or
of Darkness. For every created intell