A MAP OF LIFE It now only remains to consider the state of those who enter heaven : whether they enter it immediately upon death or after a space in Purgatory. HEAVEN Of heaven there is no need to speak at great length here, because heaven is the end of the road and was therefore treated in some fullness at the beginning of the map — in the third chapter. Scripture tells us three things very clearly: (i) The happiness of heaven is perfect— broken by no present sorrow and no fear of future ceasing. It is happiness of the whole being, the soul’s every power acting at its very highest. (2) The happiness of heaven is indescribable and unimaginable. “Eye hath not seen, nor hath ear heard, nor hath it entered into the heart of man what things God hath prepared for them that love Him.” The language made by man from his experiences of this life has no power to convey the experiences of the next. The pictures of joy built by our imagination, fed upon the joys of this life, are poor shadows of the joy of heaven. (3) But if by imagination we can take no grip on heaven’s happiness, by the higher faculty of intellect — acting upon the revelation of God — we can know something of it. In heaven we shall see God “face to face”: we shall “know as we are known”: so says Scripture. Which means that we shall know God, not, as we know things here below, by an idea in the 140