God in us we have heaven and eternal life. Our death, on the other hand,
is the conviction and belief that our life is we ourselves and not God. This
attitude brings us hell and eternal death, meaning damnation.”
[ 20 ] After this they checked over the document that the angels had
left on the table. They saw written at the bottom, “Connect these three
into a single statement.”
They brought them together and found that the three connected to
form a single chain. The chain, their statement, was this: “We human
beings have been created to receive love and wisdom from God and yet to
experience them completely as if they came from ourselves, for the sake of
our receiving them and forming a partnership with God. For this reason
we are not born with any love, any knowledge, or any capability whatever
for loving or becoming wise on our own. If we attribute all the goodness
of love and all the truth of wisdom to God, we become living human
beings. If we attribute them to ourselves, we become dead human beings.”
They wrote this on a new sheet of paper and placed it on the table.
Suddenly angels were present in a shining white cloud. They took the doc-
ument to heaven. After it was read there, the people sitting on the chairs
heard voices from heaven saying, “Good!... Good!... Good!”
Immediately someone came into view, flying down from above. He
had two wings attached to his ankles and two more attached to his tem-
ples. He was carrying prizes—robes, hats, and laurel wreaths. He landed
on the ground, then gave opalescent robes to the people sitting on the
north side. To the people sitting on the west side he gave scarlet robes. To
the people sitting on the south side he gave hats whose rims were deco-
rated with bands of gold and bands of pearls, and whose raised left sides
were decorated with diamonds cut in the shape of flowers. To the people
sitting on the east side, however, he gave laurel wreaths with rubies and
sapphires in them. Decorated with these prizes from their wisdom
games, they all went joyfully home.God’s Omnipotence, Omniscience, and Omnipresence
49 We have discussed divine love and wisdom and have shown that these
two qualities make up the divine essence. We turn next to God’s
omnipotence, omniscience, and omnipresence because these three attrib-
utes come from divine love and divine wisdom much the way the sun’s