‘You are right in likening this vision to a mountain, but you misunderstand its nature, for it is not upwards that we climb as towards heaven. That realm is not open to man’s comprehension alone, though he would wish to transcend to it. Heaven is revealed in the coming down of the Lord to men in love. It is those who give up their loves and accept this love who are then given the right to step into heaven, not by any transcendent means, but simply by prayer. But the road to give up these untrue loves is long, tiresome and hard. This vision is not as a single mountain, but like a range of mountains across which we will traverse. The cloud you imagine hides not its height, but its length—the territory that we must traverse for you to understand both your own spiritual state and that of England’s. Yet the more you walk with me, the less difficult it will become as the load of your own false love, which you now feel upon you, begins to fall away. Now come, before you there is more to see that will enlighten your view.’