ectual Being remaineth in its deeds
and essences, in its wonders and properties, in its life and image; and
therein it beholdeth and feeleth God, as who is everywhere, whether it
be in the Love or in the Wrath.

If it be in the Love of God, then beholdeth it God accordingly, and
feeleth him as he is, Love. But if it hath captivated itself in the
Wrath of God, then it cannot behold God otherwise than in the Wrathful
Nature, nor perceive him otherwise than as an incensed and vindictive
Spirit. All places are alike to it, if it be in God's Love; and, if it
be not there, every place is Hell alike. What Place can bound a Thought?
Or what needeth any understanding Spirit to be kept here or there, in
order to its happiness or misery? Verily, wheresoever it is, it is in
the Abyssal World, where there is neither end nor limit. And whither, I
pray, should it go? since though it should go a thousand miles off, or a
thousand times ten thousand miles, and this ten thousand times over
beyond the bounds of the Universe, and into the imagining spaces above
the stars, yet it were then still in the very same point from whence it
went out. For God is the _Place_ of Spirit, if it may be lawful to
attribute to him such a name to the which Body hath a relation. And in
God there is no limit; both near and far off is here all one; and be it
in his Love, or be it in his Anger, the abyssal Will of the Spirit is
altogether unconfined. It is swift as thought, passing through all
things; it is magical, and nothing corporeal or from without can let it;
it dwelleth in its wonders, and they are its house.

Thus it is with every Intellectual, whether of the Order of Angels or of
human Souls, and you need not fear but there will be room enough for
them all, be they ever so many; and such also as shall best suit them,
even according to their election and determination, and which may thence
very well be called the "_own place_" of each.

At which said the Scholar, I remember, indeed, that it is written
concerning the great traitor, that he went after death to his _own
place_.

The Master said: The same is true of every Soul, when it departeth this
mortal life. And it is true in like manner of every Angel and Spirit
whatsoever, which is necessarily determined by its own choice. As God is
everywhere, so also the Angels are everywhere; but each one in its own
Principle, and in its own Property or (if you had rather) in its _own
Place_. The same Essence o