re. But Nature itself, apart from and unfilled
by the Divine Light, is a self-torment, a mere Want, a Desire, a Hunger.
The true distinction between God and Nature is that God is an Universal
All, while Nature is an Universal Want, viz: to be filled by God.
Physical attraction is nothing but the outer sheath of this universal
desire. Nature filled by God is Heaven or fulfilled Desire.[C] Without
God it is Hell, mere Desire. Heaven is the Presence of God: Hell his
Absence. It is as true to say that Heaven is in God, as to say that God
is in Heaven.

Apart from the existence of God there could be neither Presence nor
Absence, neither Heaven nor Hell. If the Soul of Man were wholly divided
and separated from the Divine Life, it would, as a part of Nature, be a
mere hungering, restless, conscious Desire. In so far as it is so
separated it partakes of this pain. For "through all the Universe of
Things nothing is uneasy, unsatisfied, or restless, but because it is
not governed by Love, or because its Nature has not reached or attained
the full birth of the Spirit of Love. For when that is done, every
hunger is satisfied, and all complaining, murmuring, accusing,
resenting, revenging and striving are as totally suppressed and overcome
as coldness, thickness and horror of darkness are suppressed and
overcome by the breaking forth of the light. If you ask why the Spirit
of Love cannot be displeased, cannot be disappointed, cannot complain,
accuse, resent or murmur, it is because the Spirit of Love desires
nothing but itself, it is its own Good, for Love is God, and he that
dwelleth in God dwelleth in Love."[D]

Behmen's idea of the "fallen Angels" is that they are entirely and
hopelessly divided from the Life of God. They are mere embodied,
hopeless, self-tormenting Desires. They have fallen into the hell within
themselves, they _cannot but_ be hating, bitter, envious, proud,
wrathful, restless; and therefore tormentors of others. They have lost
that which man, however far astray, always possesses, the faculty of
return or regeneration through submission to and union with God. The
spark of the Life and Spirit of God which is in Men is not in the
fallen Angels. Let us hope that Beings so utterly lost do not exist.

God is outside of Nature and yet in a sense inside also, because there
is a divine life or virtue in Nature which, longing to re-unite itself
with its source, is a cause of anguish while divided, and of joy when
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