s to the Soul. But when the
outward Man dyeth, then the Spiritual World is manifested to the Soul,
which hath now its covering taken away. And it is manifested either in
the Eternal Light with the holy Angels, or in the Eternal Darkness, with
the Devils.

The _Scholar_ further queried: What is an Angel, or an human Soul, that
they can be thus manifested either in God's Love or Anger, either in
Light or Darkness?

To whom Theophorus answered: They come from one and the self-same
Original. They are little branches of the Divine Wisdom, of the Divine
Will, sprung from the Divine Word, and made objects of the Divine Love.
They are out of the Ground of Eternity; whence Light and Darkness do
spring; Darkness which consisteth in the receiving of Self-Desire; and
Light which consisteth in willing the same thing with God. For the
conformity of the Will with God's Will is Heaven; and wheresoever there
is this willing with God, there the Love of God is undoubtedly in the
working, and his Light will not fail to manifest itself. But in the
Self-attraction of the Soul's desire, or in the reception of Self into
the willing of any Spirit, angelical or human, the Will of God worketh
with difficulty, and is to that Soul and Spirit nought but Darkness; out
of which, notwithstanding, the Light may be manifested. And this
Darkness is the Hell of that Spirit wherein it is. For _Heaven_ and
_Hell_ are nought else but a _Manifestation of the Divine Will either
in Light or Darkness, according to the Properties of the Spiritual
World_.

SCHOLAR

What then is the Body of Man?

MASTER

It is the visible World, an Image and Quintessence, or Compound of all
that the World is; and the visible World is a manifestation of the
inward spiritual World, come out of the Eternal Light, and out of the
Eternal Darkness, out of the spiritual compaction or connection; and it
is also an Image or Figure of Eternity, whereby Eternity hath made
itself visible; where Self-Will and resigned Will, viz., Evil and Good,
work one with the other.

Such a substance is the outward Man. For God created Man out of the
outward World, and breathed into him the inward spiritual World for a
Soul and an intelligent Life, and therefore in the things of the outward
World, Man can receive and work Evil and Good.

SCHOLAR

What shall be after this World, when all things perish and come to an
end?

MASTER

The material substance only ceaseth; viz., the four Elements, th