heaven. In your hearts you have denied the existence of God and have
despised religion.”
We then told the people, “Don’t delay leaving, or you’ll be thrown
out.” They hurried down and went away.
[ 8 ] On the way home we discussed why people who enjoy doing evil
would have heads that in this world look hollowed out at the back. I gave
a reason: We have two brains, one at the back of our head called the cere-
bellum, and the other in our forehead called the cerebrum. The love in
our will resides in the cerebellum. The thought in our intellect resides in
our cerebrum. When the thought in our intellect fails to guide the love
in our will, the inmost structures of the cerebellum, which are actually
heavenly, collapse, causing this hollowness.
The third memorable occurrence.In the spiritual world I once heard 161
the sound of a mill. It was in the northern area. At first I wondered what
it was, but then I remembered that a mill and grinding grain mean
research in the Word to support a particular doctrinal perspective.
I went to the place where I had heard the sound coming from. As I
came near, the sound disappeared. Then I saw an arched roof just above
the ground. To enter the place you had to go through a cave, so I went
down and in. To my surprise, there was a room there where I saw an old
man sitting among books, holding the Word in front of him. He was
searching through it for anything that would serve his doctrinal perspec-
tive. Little slips of paper were lying all around him on which he had writ-
ten applicable quotations. In the next room over there were copyists who
were collecting the slips of paper and committing what was written on
them to a full sheet of paper.
First I asked the man about the books around him. He said, “They
all deal with the topic of the faith that justifies us. The works from Swe-
den and Denmark deal with it in depth; the work from Germany in
greater depth; the works from Britain in even greater depth; but the pro-
foundest of them all come from Holland.”
“They disagree in various other ways,” he added, “but on the point
that we are justified and saved by faith alone they all agree.”
Then he said that he was at that time collecting passages from the
Word on the crux of the faith that justifies us. “The crux,” he said, “is that
God the Father lapsed from an attitude of grace toward the human race
because of its wrongdoing. Therefore in order to save the human race there
was a divine necessity for someone to provide satisfaction, reconciliation,
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