At St. Peter’s Gate ..., a human strategy, aphorism 493

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At St. Peter’s Gate: “Heaven” and “Hell” are in the “next world” — in the sense that this new repetition of key circumstances will result in the death of this and birth of that next mental state. I do not experience it now, and do not know it; I have faith in the progress of this self-science: honesty. And if I have lived honestly here, then I will be rewarded there. Heaven is the sudden ascension into and endurance of higher and higher contexts in this life. Hell is the ignorance of the process of God’s creation (Nature) and the punishment is to slide backwards and downwards, every repetition a decrease in life force.

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