s evidently this; in that Soul
or Creature its own will is without God's Will; and there the Devil
dwelleth; and with him all that is without God, and without Christ. This
is the truth; lay it to heart.

The _Scholar_ said: It is possible I may ask several impertinent
questions; but I beseech you, good Sir, to have patience with me, and to
pity my ignorance, if I ask what may appear to you perhaps ridiculous,
or may not be at all fit for me to expect an answer to. For I have
several questions still to propound to you; but I am ashamed of my own
thoughts in this matter.

The _Master_ said: Be plain with me, and propose whatever is upon your
mind; yea, be not ashamed even to appear ridiculous, so that by querying
you may but become wiser.

The _Scholar_ thanked his Master for this liberty and said: How far then
are Heaven and Hell asunder?

To whom he answered thus: As far as Day and Night; or as far as
Something and Nothing. They are in one another and yet they are at the
greater distance one from the other. Nay, the one of them is as nothing
to the other; and yet notwithstanding they cause joy and grief to one
another. Heaven is throughout the whole World, and it is also without
the World over all, even everywhere that is, or that can be even so much
as imagined. It filleth all, it is within all, it is without all, it
encompasseth all; without division, without place; working by a Divine
Manifestation, and flowing forth universally, but not going in the least
out of itself. For only in itself it worketh and is revealed, being one
and undivided in all. It appeareth only through the Manifestation of
God; and never but in itself only. And in that Being which cometh into
it, or in that wherein it is manifested; there also it is that God is
manifested. Because Heaven is nothing else but a Manifestation or
Revelation of the Eternal One, wherein all the working and willing is in
quiet love.

So in like manner Hell also is through the whole World, and dwelleth and
worketh but in itself, and in that wherein the Foundation of Hell is
manifested, namely, in Self-hood and in the False Will. The visible
World hath both in it; and there is no place but Heaven and Hell may be
found or revealed in it. Now Man as to his temporal life is only of the
visible World; and therefore during the time of his life he seeth not
the spiritual World. For the Outward World with its substance is a cover
to the Spiritual World, even as the Body i