“The same is true for feeling, thought, and work; and also for will,
intellect, and action. The will without the intellect is like an eye that can-
not see. The will and the intellect together without action are like a mind
without a body.
“The truth of this is clearly visible in this temple, because the light
we are in enlightens the inner realms of the mind.
[ 5 ] “Geometry, too, teaches that nothing is whole and complete
unless it has a threefold nature. A line is nothing unless it becomes an
area, and an area is nothing unless it becomes a three-dimensional body.
Therefore the first dimension is expanded into the second in order to
exist, and the two become embodied in the third dimension.
“This same principle applies to each and every created thing. All of
them culminate in a third stage. This is why ‘three’ in the Word means
whole and complete.
“For this reason I cannot help feeling amazed that some people claim
they believe in faith alone, others in goodwill alone, and still others in
good actions alone. Yet the first element is nothing without the second,
and both of these are nothing without the third.”
[ 6 ] Then I asked, “Isn’t it possible for people to have goodwill and
faith and yet not have good actions? Isn’t it possible for people to have a
desire and a thought, and yet do nothing?”
“That could happen only in theory,” the angel answered. “It could not
happen in reality. For these things to exist even theoretically, the people
would have to maintain a drive or a will to do something. Will or drive is
actually a form of action, since it is a constant striving to act, which under
the right circumstances becomes an external action. Therefore all wise
people take the internal actions of a drive or will to be entirely the same as
external actions (because that is how God takes them), provided the drive
or will continues when an opportunity to act presents itself.”388 The fourth memorable occurrence.I was talking with some of the peo-
ple meant by “the dragon” in the Book of Revelation. One of them said,
“Come with me. I’ll show you what entertains our eyes and hearts.” He
led me through a dark forest onto a hill from which I could watch the
dragons’ form of entertainment. I saw an amphitheater built in the round
with seating rising at an angle in every direction, on which the spectators
were sitting. The spectators sitting in the front row looked to me at a dis-
tance like satyrs and priapuses, some with a loincloth covering their geni-
tals and some who were completely naked. Sitting in the seats behind
them there were promiscuous men and women. (Their movements sug-
gested to me that that is what they were.)