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Where is heaven?
EOSICEUCIAN PHILOSOPHY
QUESTION No. 61.
Answer: The Christ said "Heaven is within," and yet
we are shown that at the time when He left His disciples,
He ascended into heaven. To understand this, we must
analyze the constitution of a planet, and according to the
hermetic action "as above so below," we shall understand
better if we first analyze the constitution of man.
The man has first the dense body which we see with our
eyes, but that dense body is not as solid as it appears; in
fact it is permeated by a number of invisible vehicles. It
is composed of the solids, the liquids and the gases of the
chemical region, but these, science tells us, are interpene-
trated by ether, for man's body is no different from all
other things in the world, and in the densest solid as in the
rarest gas, science says, and says truly, every little atom is
vibrating in a sea of ether. This ether is still physical
matter; a considerable portion is specialized by man and
forms an exact counterpait of our dense body, besides protruding
about an inch and a half beyond the periphery of
our visible body. It was this part that the doctors in Bos-
ton weighed by placing dying people on scales. They noted
that when the last breath was drawn something having
weight left the body and the side of the scales which had
the weight on it fell to the floor with startling suddenness.
The newspaper reporters claimed that the doctors had
weighed the soul, but what they did weigh was this vital
body composed of ether which leaves the body at death.
We have a still finer vehicle called ilia desire body, which
is composed of what occultists call desire stuff, and it may