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be seen by one having the sixth sense unfolded as an eggshaped
cloud enveloping the dense body on all sides, so that
the latter is located in the center of the desire body, as
the yolk is in the center of the egg, with the differ-
ence only that while the white envelops the yolk but does
not interpenetrate, this desire body permeates both the vital
body and the dense body in every nook and cranny. There
is a still finer material in the makeup of man which we may
call "mind stuff," composed of the coarsest material of the
world of thought, the material wherein we form our con-
crete thoughts, and this envelopes the indwelling Ego.
The world is similarly constituted. Besides this visible
world which we see, composed of the solids, liquids and
gases, ,
and interpenetrated by ether, there is also a Desire
World which permeates every part of the Physical World
and reaches out into space beyond both air and ether. Then
there is the World of Thought, and that also penetrates
every part of our planet, from center to circumference,
reaching out into space still farther than worlds.
any of the other
During earth life, man lives upon this firm, visible earth,
but after death, according to the deeds done in the body, he
may be still imprisoned here, as the Purgatory regions are
everywhere around and about us,
also below in the inner
recesses of the earth. The First Heaven is also here in a
certain sense, insofar as similar material to that of which
it is constituted is around and about us, but the First
Heaven itself, the place where the spirits who have beer/
liberated usually dwell, is beyond our atmosphere. The
Second Heaven may also be truly said to be within, for the
material of which it is constituted is here and the spirits
who are there might visit us, yet the conditions here, the
thought currents, etc., would be derogatory to their work