| p95 | The imagination allows that when "this world" is left, one will meet God face-to-face. The Kingdom they have entered may still be surrounded by a moat, on the other side of which is the suffering of the people left behind in that other world. Somehow they imagine happiness and peace despite this view of the suffering. They will imagine the lives of those "below" going by in the blink of an eye, so temporary as to be inconsequential. In this new reality, only the eternal will matter. The temporal will be as dust beneath their feet. Yet still they may imagine having "earned" their way to heaven with the inconsequential life they left behind. And they may imagine a place, a hell, where those who did not earn their way to heaven now dwell … another "separate" reality. |