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THE BEST PLACE IN HEAVEN
their youngest brother, looking younger, was explaining something to his
child. His beauty of a wife was busy doing something nearby.
The brothers were amazed and asked their father, “Our youngest brother
is still in his earthly garden, not in the heavenly one as we are. What is he
guilty of before God? Why hasn’t the flesh of our youngest brother died?
More than a century has passed in earthly calculation, so why are we seeing
him young? Has God changed the universal order?”
The father answered, “God has not changed the universal order, created
from the beginning in great harmony and inspired love. Your brother’s flesh
has died more than once. But the best place for the soul is in the heavenly
garden created by your own hands and heart. Just as for a loving mother and
father, the child they create is always the most beautiful. Following the Div-
ine order, the soul of your youngest brother should end up in the heavenly
garden, but since that garden is on Earth, then it is reincarnated immediately
in a new body in the earthly garden dear to it.”
“Tell us, Father,” the brothers continued. “You told us that our youngest
brother is with God, but we do not see God near him in his garden.”
The father told his three sons, “Your youngest brother, my sons, is tend-
ing to God’s creations, the trees and grass. They are the Creator’s material-
ized thoughts. By touching them with love and awareness, your youngest
brother is thereby with God.”
“Tell us, our father, will we ever return to Earth in fleshly guise?” the
sons asked their father and heard in answer: “Your souls, my sons, now abide
in the heavenly garden, and they can acquire earthly guise only in the event
that someone creates a garden on earth for your souls that resembles the
heavenly garden.”
The brothers exclaimed, “Gardens are not created with love for someone
else’s soul. We ourselves, if we acquire flesh, will raise a heavenly garden on
Earth.”
But the father answered his sons: “That opportunity was already given to
you, my sons.”
He quietly began to move away. But once again the three brothers asked
the father, “Our own dear father, show us your place in the heavenly garden.
