Body so soon as it was created, we should have thought that it had not
been created. And in this Order he saw other Essences also, like his own
which had necessarily been heretofore, then were dissolv'd, and
afterwards necessarily existed together with himself; and that they were
so many as could not he number'd, if we might call them _many_; or that
they were all one, if we might call them _one_. And he perceiv'd both in
his own Essence, and in those other Essences which were in the same Rank
with him, infinite Beauty, Brightness and Pleasure, such as neither Eye
hath seen, nor Ear heard, nor hath it enter'd into the Heart of Man; and
which none can describe nor understand, but those which have attain'd to
it, and experimentally know it.

§ 93. Then he saw a great many other immaterial Essences[25], which
resembled rusty Looking-glasses, cover'd over with Filth, and besides,
turn'd their Backs upon, and had their Faces averted from those polish'd
Looking-glasses that had the Image of the Sun imprinted upon them; and
he saw that these Essences had so much Filthiness adhering to them, and
such manifold Defects as he could not have conceived. And he saw that
they were afflicted with infinite Pains, which caused incessant Sighs
and Groans; and that they were compass'd about with Torments, as those
who lie in a Bed are with Curtains; and that they were scorch'd with the
fiery Veil of Separation[26]. But after a very little while his Senses
return'd to him again, and he came to himself out of this State, as out
of an Extasie; and his Foot sliding out of this place, he came within
sight of this sensible World, and lost the sight of the Divine World,
for there is no joining them both together in the same State. _For this
World in which we live, and that other are like two Wives belonging to
the same Husband; if you please one, you displease the other_.

§ 94. Now, if you should object, that it appears from what I have said