What is the kingdom within?

There is one obscure point, which I want to make clear, even though I may be accused of “mysticism” by those for whom mysticism means only obscurity.

I have said that the life of the soul is both subjective and objective, but principally objective, and that the life of “spirits” dwelling in subtle matter is both subjective and objective, but principally subjective.

Yet I have spoken of going alone, or with others to heaven, as a place. I want to explain this. 

You remember the saying, “The kingdom of heaven is within you,” which is subjective. Also, “Where two or three are gathered together in My name, there will I be in the midst of them.”

Now, those places in this subtle realm, which I have called the Christian heavens, are places where two or three, or two or three thousand, as the case may be, are gathered together in His name to enjoy the kingdom of heaven within them.

The aggregation of souls is objective―that is, the souls exist in time and space, and the heaven, which they enjoy is subjective, though they may all see the same thing at the same time, as, for instance, the vision of Him whom they adore as Redeemer.

That is as clear as I can make it.

―The Judge