You can only receive such ideas about God and heaven as your spiritual development fits you to grasp.
In the early days of our world's history we pictured a God who was an omnipotent man―a man in every respect―with certain qualities superadded―those qualities being such as we would fancy as natural additions to the being with which we were already acquainted.
In other words, we took the highest ideal of humanity and added to it certain qualities― the result we called Deity.
In this we were doing only what we have always done.
The human conception of Deity must ever be clouded with mortal mist―even as the revelation of God can only come through a mortal medium and be proportioned to human capacity.
This is a natural and invariable consequence of the conditions under which we exist.
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