Key to the Things Hidden from the Foundation of the World

live for a long time, and through Death we can return to eternal life: yet in truth, we are still in this Life in great loss, brought about by sin, in that "our first parent would have lived here happy even without sin, and in perfect Charity, and finally would have been translated happy and without Death from material weight, so that he could have conversed in the universe with the celestials on high, or with his grandchildren in the lower regions, and like a retired Soldier, could have led the celestial cohorts with him." For in God who is infinite, heaven is everywhere. Therefore, before all the accounts of the Human condition are brought back to this, there will always be a greater Offense and Loss, which has crept into all, than the Gift, which, although proposed to all, has hitherto reached only a few, whom it has blessed in this life with the highest miseries and the Cross, which will never be absent from the prayers of the pious in this life.

Since matters are as they have been shown, and Christus Iesus Christ Jesus himself is to come again in Nos into Us for the Restitution of All things (according to the opinion of the first Peter, in