1. Whether on earth or in heaven, the same rules apply to both:
2. He that serves himself one-half and serves others one-half, shall stand grade fifty.
3. He that serves himself three-quarters and others one quarter, shall stand grade twenty-five.
4. He that serves himself one-quarter and others three-quarters, shall stand grade seventy-five.
5. He that serves himself only shall stand grade one.
6. He that serves others wholly shall stand grade ninety-nine.
7. And he who serves accordingly, himself or others, shall stand in grade even as his works manifest.
8. To serve one's self is to work for one's self; to strive for one's self, to think of one's own self, as to what will profit one's own self only.
9. To serve others is to do good unto others; to help them; to teach them; to give them joy and comfort. This is the service of Jehovih.
10. But there are some who are below the grades; who seek to do evil; who seek to make others unhappy; who delight in crime and pollution. These, if mortal, shall be called druks, and if spirits, shall be called drujas.
11. After such manner, in general, are the grades of my heavens of the earth, atmospherea.
12. Grade one is on the earth; grade fifty, midway between the earth and the emancipated heavens, etherea.
13. Grade twenty-five is one-quarter way up from the earth, toward etherea; but grade seventy-five is three-quarters way upward, toward etherea. And so on, relatively, grade and place of ascent intermediately.
14. But grade ninety-nine is the highest atmospherean grade, preparatory to entrance into the company of the all pure in spirit.
15. But good works alone are not sufficient to attain the highest grades, for they require knowledge and capacity to unfold others.
16. To accomplish this, those of the higher grades shall often return to the lower grades and learn to lift them up. For it is this which calls the ethereans in the times of resurrections;
17. During which the righteous, who are yet mortal, begin at once lifting up their fellows.
18. This labor is to the spirit as exercise is to the mortal body, that which gives strength.
19. Judge, then, yourself, O man of the earth, as to the place your spirit will rise in the time of your death.
Chapter XII
1. O man, remember your Creator and praise Him. In this you are graded by your God.
2. Those who do not see Him are weak in spirit; those who see Him in all things and hear His voice in the leaves, and in every herb, are strong in spirit.
3. These are the grades of the resurrection of the souls of men.
4. For what is the earth but a foaling nest, and the possessions of the earth but chains of bondage.
5. My heavens rest upon the earth; the place of the newly arrived spirit is in my keeping. And I have adjusted the places of the grades of my heavens according to the inhabitants of them.
6. I people the heavens of the earth with the spirits of the dead; according to their grade in their corporeal lives, so do I arrange them.
7. To provide ever-continuing ascension for them, and make them to rejoice in their being. These are the labors of your God.
8. For the beasts of the field and the birds and fowls of the air, and for many animals that are companions to man, I made a place in heaven where their spirits should survive for a season.
9. And this animal heaven I graded, one, in the order of my heavens.
10. For I saw that man on the earth had delight in them; and I provided for him for his es'yan period, that he might rejoice in remembrance of finding his loves.
11. And I made the animal heaven to rest on the face of the lands of the earth in the same place as is the es'yan in grade one.
12. Remember, O man, your Creator gave to every animal a season on the earth; but He limited them to a time to become extinct. Even so, and of like duration I made a heavenly period for the spirits of animals companionable to man.
13. But for man I provided heavens above, where he should rise as to place even as he rises as to goodness and knowledge.
14. Magnify your perception, O man, so that you may comprehend the kingdoms of your God. See the example your Creator set before you in the fashioning of the earth.
15. In large bodies, He placed the lands; in large bodies, He placed the oceans. Not in little hillocks of land and little puddles of water.
16. Even larger than these are the divisions (plateaus) of the heavens of your God; the heavens of the earth are separated by atmospherean oceans.
17. I do not fill the air of the firmament with angels scattered about; but I give unto them regions that are habitable and home-like. And I grade them suitable to the resurrection of the spirits of the dead.
18. Consider the work of your Creator, and the knowledge and symbols He places before you. You hold up a lump of salt, and it is solid and of dimensions; but cast it into water, and it is not seen, but dissolved and lost as to your perception.
19. And you see the earth, which has dimensions also; but the ethe, you do not see. As water is to salt the solvent, so is ethe to corporeal things the solvent. By slow velocity the solid earth holds its form; yet, in ethe, external to the body of the earth, the swift velocity of corpor is magnified into dissolution. By vortices in ethe are these things accomplished.
20. In the atmosphere of the earth, there is sufficient corpor to make many worlds like this habitable earth. And this corpor, which is in solution (as to a mortal's eyes), floats in the firmament of the earth, in continents wide as the earth and deep as the earth; and there are thousands of them.
21. And yet, O man, these are but the atmospherean heavens. These are the dominions given into the keeping of your God. These are my kingdoms and my heavens for a season.
22. As you, O man of the earth, sail your ships abroad over the ocean, and coming to a new land, going ashore, do settle your people on it and it becomes a new kingdom, even so does your God in the heavens of the earth, in the plateaus of this vortex.
23. Remember the magnitude of your Creator's works and the symbols He set before you: Where the clouds float high, it does not rain; where they drag on the face of the earth, it rains daily.
24. Consider the habitations of the resurrections of the dead which are in the keeping of your God.
25. Even as to the square of the distance away from the earth, so are the grades of my resurrections.
26. According to the exaltation of man's soul, so shall he inhabit the places I have made.
27. According to his own soul's growth and development, so shall he ascend in my kingdoms, outward away from the earth; grade unto grade I adapted them.