Excerpt from The King's Garden, or the Life of the World to Come To bring together, for our enlightenment, com fort, and inspiration, as many as possible of these pictures of the imagination, combined with more authoritative statements, comments, and conclusions solidly founded on Holy Scripture, is the object of this book. In matters where all must be, not mere conjecture, to be sure, but individual interpretations or elaborations of Scriptural hints, assertions of possibilities, not of absolute facts, - I have thought it right to admit whatever was sincere and reverent, if suited to the aim and scope of the work. It fol lows that there are some slight contradictions in minor details; they are due to the several facets of the human mind, reflecting light at different angles readers can discriminate for themselves. The won der is not that there are a few divergences, but rather that the general trend of thought is so harmonious. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.