Q. Where is Purgatory located in the Desire World?
A. Purgatory occupies the three lower Regions of the Desire World.
Q. What do we find in the fourth Region?
A. The central, or fourth, Region is a sort of
borderland — neither heaven nor hell.
Q. What kind of people are there?
A. In this Region we find people who are honest and upright;
who wronged no one but were deeply immersed in business and
thought nothing of the higher life.
Q. What do they do there?
A. For them the Desire World is a state of the most indescribable
monotony. There is no "business" in that world nor is there,
for a man of that kind, anything that will take its place. He has a very
hard time until he learns to think of higher things than ledgers and
drafts.
Q. What other types are in that Region?
A. The people who thought of the problem of life and death and came to the
conclusion that "death ends it all," who denied the existence of
things outside the material sense world — these people also feel this
dreadful monotony.
Q. What had they expected?
A. They had expected annihilation of consciousness, but instead of that
they find themselves with an augmented perception of persons and things
about them.
Q. What is often their reaction to this state?
A. They had been accustomed to denying these things so vehemently that
they often fancy the Desire World an hallucination, and may frequently be
heard exclaiming in the deepest despair, "When will it all end? When
will it end?"
Q. Is such a state really bad?
A. Such people are really in a pitiable state. They are generally
beyond the reach of any help whatever and suffer much longer than almost
anyone else.
Q. Do they suffer other losses?
A. Yes. In addition they have scarcely any life in the heaven world,
where the building of bodies for future use is taught, and so they put
all their crystallizing thoughts into whatever body they build for a
future life; thus a body is built that has the hardening tendencies we see,
for instance, in consumption.
Q. Does this result in good?
A. Sometimes the suffering incident to much decrepit bodies will turn the
thoughts of the Egos ensouling them to God and their evolution can proceed.
Q. In which type lies the greatest danger?
A. In the materialistic mind lies the greatest danger of losing touch with
the Spirit and becoming an outcast. Therefore, the Elder Brothers have
been very seriously concerned for the last century regarding the fate of
the Western World, and were it not for their special beneficent action in
its behalf we would have had a social cataclysm compared with which the
French Revolution would have been child's play.
— Ref: Rosicrucian Cosmo-Conception — Rays from the Rose Cross Magazine, July, 1980, p. 307
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