The basis for the being's life on the spiritual plane of existence after death is thus its absolute dream, that is, its longing to experience the highest ideal existence it can imagine. And the experience of this ideal existence or dream constitutes the living being's absolute, true paradise. But before the being can experience this ideal existence or enter this paradise after death and experience it visibly manifested here, it must go through the process of death, and possibly purgatory. As previously mentioned, purgatory is simply an epoch of preparation during which the senses through which the being experiences disappointments, sorrows, problems, bitterness, anger and hatred are put out of action. After this, the being can sense only light and joyous kinds of thought. Thus it cannot cause mental short circuits or short circuits of consciousness with other beings' kinds of thoughts or behaviour, and it can now get on to the same wavelength as only beings in the same condition or the same paradise. The wavelength range of the being's consciousness will thus lie above all wavelength ranges of consciousness that can create animosity, antipathy, anger, jealousy, envy, sorrows, loss and disappointments. As its senses in paradise cannot register these kinds of thoughts or related ones, paradise can thus be nothing but a culminatory experience of sheer happiness and joy. If the opposite were the case, it would never experience a pure paradise or dream existence. The spiritual world would be just as characterised by war, accidents, sufferings, sorrows and problems as the physical world is. We must thus understand that the spiritual world constitutes a wavelength range that is far beyond the wavelength range of the physical world. The wavelength range of the former world is that of love and wisdom, while the wavelength range of the physical world is that of hatred and anger. This will perhaps be easier to understand when one becomes familiar with the fact that the spiritual world is actually a purely electrical world, indeed, is the very home of electricity. According to cosmic analyses electricity is the life force of the entire universe; it is the spirit of God himself. But in the spiritual world, where this spirit or life force does not have to penetrate any physical matter and cannot therefore be used by the being here in the fields that it has not fully developed, the many short circuits in the form of the above-mentioned kinds of thought – animosity, antipathy, anger and so on – cannot possibly occur. They constitute animal material of consciousness and become therefore increasingly unsuitable as material of consciousness for the living being, the more it grows and develops in the humane or human direction. The unfinished human being has thus two areas of consciousness: the animal area, which is its innate inheritance from its purely animal state, and its incipient human area, which grows or develops through the many short circuits that are generated between these two areas in its psyche or mentality. As these short circuits have in turn an influence on the being's physical behaviour, they sometimes also cause this to short-circuit with the behaviour of its fellow beings, and war breaks out and spreads to the beings. And unhappy fates occur, with massacres and mutilation and the sorrows and problems connected with these, which can even end in suicide. In purgatory the being is liberated from its ability to create and experience these unhappy states, through the set of senses involved being put out of action. Through this, the being is guaranteed that its spiritual existence between its physical lives, its paradise, becomes an experience of one hundred per cent mental light, a state of joy and happiness that it, as an unfinished human being, cannot possibly experience in its purest form on the physical plane of existence. With the liberation from its physical organism and its ensuing passage through purgatory where it, as previously mentioned, has a certain part of its sensory range put out of action, its ability to experience life and create becomes considerably reduced. But the area of its consciousness from which it is liberated in paradise is its entire physical sphere of fate, where it had the opportunity to make mistakes and thereby bring misfortune and adversity upon itself, and to be burdened with the problems, troubles and sufferings that ensue from this. The being has thus been liberated from its entire unfinished field of consciousness, which can be finished or completed absolutely only on the physical plane. After this, its consciousness will contain only those fields whose evolution is finished or completed to such an extent that it, through these, can experience and create nothing but light and joy for others as well as for itself.