This is Paul’s third heaven.  Oh! what unlimited expansion!  What incomprehensible principles, to move at large in quest of universal truths as seen in the seven types of Heaven’s spiritual intelligences, and in the unending manifestations of God’s work and love as displayed in all heaven and in all the peopled planets of space!

Not one of these blessed inhabitants ever grows old or suffers fatigue.  They are capable of moving with tireless energy from one part of Heaven’s vast domains to any other portion.

DEGREES OF HEAVEN.

In space there are many sinless worlds where human species are propagated, not as the result of any sexual affinities, but in a manner totally unintelligible to a finite mind.  They who reach Heaven from such a world cannot drink in the same kind of enjoyment as those who come up out of great tribulations from the spheres of a sin-cursed world, and who have struggled for mastery and forged their way to the sky through armies of aliens.

But these creatures are perfectly contented, for they have no way of realizing the glory resulting from the victory over the world, the flesh and the Devil.

Then there are degrees of glory among those who come from a sin-cursed world.  Some have many treasures laid up in Heaven, while others centered their affections too much upon the transitory things of time and sense.

There are also various orders or degrees of glory among the seven types of intelligences of which Heaven’s multitudes are composed.  Some of these may be suggested to your mind when you read more of this sevenfold life.

[Illustration:  A Glimpse of Blissful Life in Heaven.]

SEVEN TYPES OF INTELLIGENCES.

1.  The first class of beings is composed of those whom we comprehend as the Trinity, whose highest glory is expressed in the Mediatorial personage who can be seen at will by any of Heaven’s hosts from any world.

2.  The cherubim and seraphim, or the highest order of spirits, who have always been pure and holy.  They constitute the next rank of the celestial host.

3.  The third class is composed of the general host of angels who also have been holy from eternity, and who serve as ambassadors to various points of the limitless creation.

4.  The spirits of those who have risen from sinful worlds by virtue of a God-approved and God-appointed Mediator.  To join the ranks of this class we, who serve God, are hastening.  This is no low order or caste in Heaven, but they who belong to it vie with higher angels, and taste sweetness beyond the capacity of those who, in other respects, are our peers.  The angels desire to look into the deep mystery of salvation’s plan.

5.  The matured and maturing spirits of those who left sinful worlds before God held them accountable for their deeds.  To this class belong our children who precede us into the final abode.