She learned that in this world beyond the world, and that yet itself was but a rung in the ladder of many universes, up which ladder all souls must climb to the ultimate judgment, there was sorrow as well as bliss, there were both suffering and delight.
Here the sinful were brought face to face with the naked horror of their sins, and from it fled wailing and aghast.

Here the cruel, the covetous, the lustful and the liar were as creatures dragged from black caverns of darkness into the burning light of day.

These yearned back to their darkness and attained sometimes to other coverings of a mortal flesh, or to some land of which she had no knowledge.

For such was their fate if in them there was no spark of repentant spirit that in this new world could be fanned to flame.
Upwards or downwards, such is the law of the universe in which nothing can stand still.

Up from the earth which Barbara had left came the spirit shape of all that lived and could die, even to that of the flower.