Chapter 11
Remember your Creator and the comprehension of His kingdoms; and consider the words of your God:
All men profess to desire resurrection; they hope to ascend to exalted heavenly spheres.
Yet many will not even try to exalt themselves.
He says in one breath: To not eat the flesh of anything created alive, is the highest.
But immediately he fills his belly with flesh.
He says: To return good for evil is the highest.
But he does evil even before the sound of his voice is hushed.
And yet, he will find fault with his Creator, if holy angels do not promise him a high seat in heaven.
And there are others who constantly profess to have the higher light; but they go about tattling, and making evil remarks about their neighbors.
Yet many of these do good to others, giving to the helpless; truly they are both rising and falling, in regard to the resurrection.
The measure of the grade of such a person shall be by weighing the whole behavior as to its result in the community where he abides. And this rule shall apply, both on earth and in heaven, to all such people.
There are men who do great good to others, and are talented as well, but who are great liars; and much prone to exaggeration. So that their good works are outbalanced by the shame of their tongues.
The grade of resurrection of such people shall be modified or benefited only a little by their good works. But they shall be weighed as to their evil habit, whether it is increasing or decreasing; and the grade of such men shall be accordingly, and shall come under the rank of spiritual disease. Because it will be entailed upon them into the es world, and shut them out from the grade which they manifested.
When you search for the grade of a city, all such persons shall therefore stand as grade one.
There are some who say: I do not care for the spiritual man or the es worlds. One world at a time is enough for me.
And they may be good as to the way of the city, contributing alms to the helpless, and visiting the sick. Nevertheless they utter truthfully their own resurrection, which shall stand grade one.
This is no crime in them, but an unfortunate imbecility of spirit. When such persons die, their knowledge, for the most part, dies with them. And they enter the es world even as if they had died in infancy.
They shall stand grade one, because owing to their weakness of spirit, they need to be habited on the earth for many years.
There are others who are forever talking about heaven, and consulting the spirits of the dead, who are nevertheless low as to good works, and low in holiness of heart. These shall be graded the same as liars and hypocrites.
For in prophecy [calculations –Ed.], you shall estimate the sum of all the virtues and vices of yourself, your neighbor, and of the whole city, or state, or even the world; and accredit the grade in ascension or declension, and you shall compare one generation with another, as to the increase or decrease of its spirituality.
And you shall know in truth, the standing of the whole world.
And from this, you shall also determine the time when man came on the earth; how long the race will survive and bring forth; and the time he shall become extinct as to the earth.