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QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS -74,5
make of the desire stuff there such a place of torture. There
we may see devils with horns, hoofs and tails, prodding the
unhappy sinners with pitchforks, and often when people
pass out at death, after having lived in that belief, they
are in a sad state of fear on beholding this place which
they have helped to create. There is also in the higher
regions of the Desire Woilcl a city such as you describe, a
New Jerusalem with pearly gates, with a sea of glass and
its great white throne upon which is seated a thought
form of God, created by these people and appearing like
an old man. It is probable that you visited this place,
which is a permanent feature of the Desire World, and
will remain so as long as
New Jerusalem in that
people continue to think of the
way, for these forms have no
life apart from the sustained thoughts of mankind, and
when in time humanity shall have outgrown that faith,
the city created by their thoughts will cease to exist. Its
crystal-like appearance is due to the exceeding brilliance
of the desire stuff of which it is built. The old alchemists
called the Desire World "astral/' "starry/' on that
account.