"The Judgment and the Reward according to the righteous scales of God... will be Light to those whose mind is purified proportionate to their degree of purity, which we call the Kingdom of heaven; but to those who suffer from blindness of their ruling faculty, darkness, that is estrangement from God, proportionate to their blindness here."
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