to enjoy greater pleasure even
from creatures--but their senses also will be more refined and acute,
and will, therefore, enable them to enjoy more refined pleasures from
the objects of sense. It will be as already explained for the
Beatific Vision. All shall see, hear, and otherwise enjoy the
creatures prepared by the Almighty to rejoice the senses of His
children; but all shall not, on that account, enjoy the same amount
of pleasure. Each one shall receive his own pleasure, according to
the supernatural perfection of his senses which he has deserved by
the holiness of his life.

Let us endeavor to understand this, by supposing a grand concert
given in a church, where all classes of society are represented. All
hear the music, both vocal and instrumental, and all, no doubt,
receive pleasure. But do they all receive the same amount of
pleasure? They certainly do not. We may, for the sake of
illustration, divide that vast assembly into three general classes.
The first consists of those who have little or no musical ear, and,
therefore, the concert affords them only an inferior pleasure. The
next class is composed of those who have a good natural ear for
music, but who never have developed and cultivated it by study. These
evidently receive a far greater pleasure than the former. But the
third class is composed of those who not only possess a natural
talent for music, but who have, moreover, developed it by patient and
assiduous study. These last receive unbounded pleasure. They follow
with ease each instrument and voice into the most intricate harmony;
they receive the most exquisite pleasure precisely in those parts
where the uneducated perceive little or no beauty, because the music
is too scientific for them.

Here you have the same object of pleasure for all. Every one present
hears the whole concert as if he were there alone; and yet, what a
difference in the pleasure enjoyed by each one! We have divided these
persons into three classes, but, in reality, each one forms a class
by himself; for there are not two of those present, whether among the
educated or the ignorant, who receive precisely the same amount of
pleasure. Each one appropriates and enjoys his own individual
pleasure, according to the peculiar development of his faculties.

So it is in heaven. All the blessed hear the magnificent harmony, but
all do not, on that account, enjoy the same degree of pleasure. Each
one enjoys in proportion to his indiv