What does the sun have to do with God?

God, angels, life, worlds—all were nothing to me—I was in eternity and endless death!

You are now in the spirit homes of earth's rich dead—

Here dwell the dives of earth in the splendours they loved, the wealth they adored and surrounded by the idols they made and worshipped.

Everywhere, myriads move around you and wander and feel in the realisation of the life for which they sold themselves, but none see the others—or you—

It is the condition of entrance to the spheres of self-love that the eye shall behold naught but self—realise no other existence. They toiled in earth life to attain this state—here they reap the harvest they have sown.

Why can the sun of heaven not penetrate these awful abodes?

And so it does. Here, as everywhere else, is heaven and light and sun, but where are the eyes that can behold it? If heaven be not within you, in vain you seek it elsewhere. If your eyes are ever turned in upon self, they are blind to all besides.

From the soul's centre goes forth the true light or darkness of the land of souls. The fatal truth—

How hardly shall a rich man enter into the kingdom of heaven!

In the invisible world of which earth, sky, suns and systems are full are eternally pacing the unresting feet of the solitary worshippers of self in their hideous loneliness and their frightful penance for the gratification of their souls' idolatries!

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